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From: M.Byrne@massey.ac.nz (M.D Byrne)
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Subject: Re: MDG - Neat, but Something's not working...
Keywords: MDG, default
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Date: 26 Feb 91 21:55:08 GMT
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cluther@supernet.dallas.haus.com (Clay Luther) writes:

|I compiled MDG up tried to run it.  The daemon chugs merrily along, invoking
|mdg_clock.  Mdg, when run, displays the start up screen.  However, it fails 
|to connect to the mdg_daemon, saying it doesn't respond, and terminates.

|Mdg_save and mdg_stop both work properly and appear to be able to talk to the
|daemon.  Here is the errorlog:

I had this problem too and found that there is supposed to be a file in
the mdg_dir/players directory called default.
I'm not sure what the file is supposed to contain but I just put some
numbers in it (based on the reading routines in the code) and it worked.

Maybe somebody could post a default starting character......

Mark Byrne