Hello Roger!

Friday August 03 2018 11:51, you wrote to me:

 > On Fri Aug-03-2018 15:22, Vince Coen (2:250/1) wrote to Roger Nelson:

 VC>> Wednesday August 01 2018 16:49, you wrote to me:

 >> On Wed Aug-01-2018 15:56, Vince Coen (2:250/1) wrote to Roger
 >> Nelson:

 VC>>> Wednesday August 01 2018 07:07, you wrote to me:

 VC>>> Yes the software used is broken - it crashes.
 VC>>> I have now stopped the script from running until resolved.

 >> Believe it or not, I had a problem recently with a program I've
 >> used for years and it began to lock up my system upon its exit.
 >> The only way out was to reboot and remove it and install the
 >> unstable version of it from 2012.  (-:

 > [...]

 VC>> I even recompiled it although it had been done in June.

 VC>> No improvement 

 > With we Windows users, we simply get rid of the offending program and
 > go back to the last version that worked as it should.  The program I
 > speak of worked alright until one of the Windows monthly rollup
 > updates came in.


I have revisted this and am now using a compiled version from 2015.

Needless to say it appears to be working.  There is no difference to the code
but there is a change of version to GCC and some general libraries.
AS the libraries are (I assume) dynamic) it may well be a problem with GCC 
v5.5
as agains the older compiler (v4.82 - based on content of a 'less turqstat').

Thanks for the suggestion.

Vince

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