Sorry, guys, this is pretty far OT but I figured there's probably as
much or more expertise on the Oly list for this topic as anywhere else.
I waited for about 6 months for the right Kiron 70-150 to come along on
ebay and lost it to a snipe at $1.00 over my bid. I also waited for
about 6 months (the second time) for a '99 Chrysler LHS factory manual
to come along and also lost it to a snipe for $1.00. Durn!!! Time to
try sniping myself.
So, I ordered the trial version of iSnipeIt and all works OK except that
it can't dial and connect by itself... pretty useless for an auction
ending at 2:00 am. I have created two dialer profiles on my Win2000
machine. One uses the standard Windows dialer, the other uses the AT&T
dialer provided by attglobal.net (my ISP). If I start either one of
these dialers manually all is OK. I can then start IE 5.0 or Netscape
4.76 and either will happily find and use the existing connection. For
that matter, so will iSnipeIt.
However, if I start IE 5.0 first and allow it to intiate the dialing I
get some peculiar results. It seems to form a connection but then
complains bitterly that it can't find the server. I assume that this is
the same thing that's going on when I ask iSnipeIt to control the
dialing since it uses IE under the covers. iSnipeIt dials the phone,
connects and then complains that the connection was terminated.
iSnipeIt gets worse if I attempt to use the AT&T dialer profile. It
quits instantly without even attempting to dial and then gives me the
same bogus message that the connection was terminated.
I sent a message off to iSnipeIt's publishers asking what they might
know about this but I'm being ignored... not surprising on a $25 package
I guess. Anyhow, I'm stumped. I've tried dialer configuration settings
till I'm blue in the face. They have to be correct since they work just
fine if I start them manually. Am I facing an IE 5.0 specific bug?
Anybody got a clue?
Thanks,
Chuck Norcutt
Woburn, Massachusetts, USA
(tired of getting sniped)
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