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Error on startup axlcore.cxt

Sagetech
Sagetech 21 days ago

I started getting the following error on startup of 24.1 - latest release. 

Any help is appreciated.

Loading axlcore.cxt

*Error* strcat: argument #2 should be either a string or a symbol (type template = "S") - nil

*Error* strcat: argument #1 should be either a string or a symbol (type template = "S") - nil

*Error* eval: unbound variable - AddToSkillPath

*Error* strcat: argument #2 should be either a string or a symbol (type template = "S") - nil

*Error* strcat: argument #1 should be either a string or a symbol (type template = "S") - nil

*Error* eval: unbound variable - AddToSkillPath

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  • JuanCR
    0 JuanCR 14 days ago

    Hi! Can you share the contents of your allegro.ilinit or apd.ilinit? 

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  • Sagetech
    0 Sagetech 13 days ago in reply to JuanCR

    Hello Juan, 

    I have decided to not move forward with loading the nsware program that was causing this issue. Once I removed it, I no longer got this error message. 

    Tom

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  • DM202509234041
    0 DM202509234041 6 days ago in reply to Sagetech

    Thank you so much! great

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