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From: kwthomas@uokmax.UUCP (Kevin Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Omega3 bugs
Message-ID: <3494@uokmax.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jul 89 03:00:06 GMT
Reply-To: kwthomas@uokmax.UUCP (Kevin Thomas)
Organization: University of Oklahoma, ECN
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There are a couple of bugs in the recently released omega3, version 0.75.
I found these playing the beta release (ftp'd from paul.rutgers.edu).  My
report to Laurence seems to have gone to /dev/null.

Problem 1:
In help, letters outside of the range of a to n pass the do while
test.  Unfortunately, the game will then fail in the open routines.

File:	  ocom3.c
Routine:  help
Old:	  while ((c < 'a') && (c > 'n') && (c != ESCAPE));
New:	  while (((c < 'a') || (c > 'n')) && (c != ESCAPE));

Problem 2:
In the "something name something says:  message" code, if the message is
"!Kurav tu andu nul!" (or something like that), the program can get hung
in an infinite loop, probably because of an array out of bounds.

File:	  omtalk.c
Routine:  m_talk_evil
Solution: in case 5, add a missing "break;" to the end of the line.

Problem 3:
Restoring a game fails.  The cause is a couple of lines of missing code.

[This bug appears to be fixed in the distributed code.  I haven't had time to 
test it because I haven't received all the parts yet.]

Problem 4:
The configuration file talks about compressing saved games, but doesn't tell
the user how to do it.

The solution is to add the missing line to "odefs":

#define	COMPRESS_SAVE_FILES

[Compressing save files is a space saving feature, and is optional.]

	Kevin W. Thomas
	National Severe Storms Laboratory
	1313 Halley Circle
	Norman, OK  73071