torchat is broken

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Turn on torchat
2.
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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Torchat to connect to tornet
Torchat connect to "myself" (user) eventually, but almost never to anybody
else.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
latest Linus version (287) as of this date 

Please provide any additional information below.

Maybe part of problem is found here. 

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-project-infrastructure-updates#comment-4109

Current torchat download versions do not contain latest version of tor
needed for tor and torchat to work.  However even if latest versioin of tor
is installed, torchat fails to work as it once did.

This issue partly but closely resembles issue 53 in Linus.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by torchat...@yopmail.com on 26 Jan 2010 at 3:22

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torchat is fine but you have to get the new tor files. easiest: get the new tor
browser bundle and install it (just overwrite is fine, but backup if you like). 
then
get the /Tor Browser/App/tor.exe and tor-resolve.exe (new file with this 
release) and
overwrite/add them to torchat /bin/Tor directory. as long as you come on line 
within
a few minutes you're connected, though other people may be offline.

Original comment by opyruco_...@yopmail.com on 15 Feb 2010 at 1:29

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Sorry, but this problem still exists for me in both the win and linux torchat
versions running the latest tor release of this date, v 02.1.23. Even then it 
takes
hours for other users to connect -and most of the time they never connect.  
This is
true even though they are also running the latest version of tor.exe.

BTW, tor-resolve.exe is not included in the torchat win or linux downloads.  Why
would it be necessary now?

In any case, the developer really should update torchat; it has no hope at all 
of
running without the latest tor.exe included. It also has many other bugs and
shortcomings which are listed on this site,

Original comment by torc...@yopmail.com on 27 Feb 2010 at 9:51

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the newest release uses tor-2.2.19-alpha, this will fix the problems (if your 
buddies update too)

Original comment by prof7...@gmail.com on 20 Dec 2010 at 6:07

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