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    From Bill Gordon@1:3634/22 to All on Mon Oct 26 17:20:28 2015
    I've seen that IREX can be started from the command line, but can it be
    stopped from the command line as well?
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  • From Dallas Hinton@1:153/715 to Bill Gordon on Thu Oct 29 12:31:31 2015
    Hi Bill -- on Oct 26 2015 at 17:20, you wrote:

    I've seen that IREX can be started from the command line, but can it
    be stopped from the command line as well?

    Sort of!! Drop a file into the flags dir, named rexexit.now, and rex will quit
    within a couple of seconds (it will finish it's current transfers first).


    Cheers... Dallas

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  • From Bill Gordon@1:3634/22 to Dallas Hinton on Thu Oct 29 22:37:47 2015

    Sort of!! Drop a file into the flags dir, named rexexit.now, and rex will quit within a couple of seconds (it will finish it's current transfers first).


    I'm sorry. "FLAGS DIR"?? That's one I've not seen yet.
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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Bill Gordon on Fri Oct 30 00:02:44 2015

    29 Oct 15 22:37, you wrote to Dallas Hinton:

    Sort of!! Drop a file into the flags dir, named rexexit.now, and rex
    will quit within a couple of seconds (it will finish it's current
    transfers first).

    I'm sorry. "FLAGS DIR"?? That's one I've not seen yet.

    the directory you have configured for your semaphore (aka flag) files...

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  • From Dallas Hinton@1:153/715 to Bill Gordon on Thu Oct 29 22:09:37 2015
    Hi Bill -- on Oct 29 2015 at 22:37, you wrote:

    I'm sorry. "FLAGS DIR"?? That's one I've not seen yet.

    In the setup for Irex you're asked to enter a directory where flag files are placed. I call mine c:\flags, oddly enough!! Irex puts a file in there to indicate that it's alive (ruxup.0 -- the extension changes according for each copy that's running) and it looks there for files directing it to exit, process
    mail, etc.

    Cheers... Dallas

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