Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site tilt.FUN Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!princeton!tilt!kyrimis From: kyrimis@tilt.FUN (Kriton Kyrimis) Newsgroups: net.sources.games Subject: Re: bug in phantasia 3.3.1+ Message-ID: <369@tilt.FUN> Date: Wed, 13-Nov-85 12:34:48 EST Article-I.D.: tilt.369 Posted: Wed Nov 13 12:34:48 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Nov-85 20:33:07 EST References: <363@tilt.FUN> <856@houxl.UUCP> Reply-To: kyrimis@tilt.UUCP (Kriton ) Organization: Princeton University CS Dept Lines: 25 Keywords: phant -x -S Summary: temporary fix does not always work In article <856@houxl.UUCP> oaa@houxl.UUCP (O.ALEXANDER) writes: >A tempory fix for this bug, where characters are not removed automatically and >if the dead character was a king, no one else can be afterwards, is to manually >remove any characters that should be. Issue the command: > phantasia -x -S >answer "" to the name prompt, then type "D" to delete the character. >This will only work if you are the super-user as defined by the program when >it was made. Unfortunately this doesn't work if someone else dies before you get a chance to delete . If that happens, gets the characteristics of the last player that dies, but phantasia still thinks that the king is someone named , whose characteris- tics are those of the now defunct king. My rather drastic solution was to re-create the characs file, and populate it by hand, using the -x -S options. -- Kriton (princeton!tilt!kyrimis) ------ "What are you gonna do now?" "Keep it confused, feed it with useless information - I wonder if I have a television set handy?" ------