sudden problems with socket connections

[Scott Evans]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Malcolm Purvis wrote:

> >>>>> "Scott" == Scott Evans <gse at antisleep.com> writes:
> 
> Scott> (Oddly enough, I've had to move to Emacs for other reasons but I
> Scott> keep a copy of XEmacs running only to use TNT!  Emacs never
> Scott> establishes a connection for me; the symptoms are very similar to
> Scott> this though the cause may well be completely different.)
> 
> Hi Scott,
> 
> Are you saying that neither Emacs nor XEmacs works on the laptop?  That
> sounds like some some recent software upgrade outside XEmacs has broken
> something.
> 
> Some details of the laptop's configuration would also be helpful in
> tracking down the problem.

Hi Malcom-

Emacs doesn't work for me on this or any other machine, and hasn't for 
some time.  The entire TNT team sees this problem in one way or another 
and we haven't been able to track it down.  I don't think it's related to 
the recent XEmacs issues I'm having.  I probably shouldn't have mentioned 
it -- don't want to confuse the issue.

The laptop is a Thinkpad running Win XP.  Windows Firewall is disabled.
Other AIM clients work fine (though, to be fair, most use a different 
protocol than TNT).  I'm also able to telnet to toc.oscar.aol.com port 
5190 with no problem, though simulating a login by hand is a little tricky 
(lots of control characters) so I haven't tried it.

I realize that this seems like it must be a non-XEmacs problem, but 
there's nothing I can point at.  TNT does pretty vanilla network stuff
via XEmacs, and that stuff isn't working while every other network thing 
I do is working fine.

Ideas welcome!


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