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From: dwb@apple.UUCP (David W. Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Re: Teltnuag ][a parts 5 and 6
Message-ID: <6621@apple.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Nov-87 14:43:52 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  4 14:43:52 1987
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References: <32531@sun.uucp> <870024@hpcilzb.HP.COM> <148@athos.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: dwb@apple.UUCP (David W. Berry)
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In article <148@athos.rutgers.edu> wiechman@athos.rutgers.edu (Wiechman) writes:
>In article <870024@hpcilzb.HP.COM> cnc@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Chris Christensen) writes:
>As the creator of Teltnuag, I am reasonably certain about what the
>problem is:
>
>Teltnuag must be at the root level of the disk, i.e., when the you
>first open the disk you should better see the following icons:
>Teltnuag and Room.1 => Room.7.  This was documented in the README file
>in section 4.0 "Getting Started".  
	Seems like an unreasonable restriction.  In most developement
systems I've worked with you'd have to go through some effort to impose
it.  PBOpen/Open will both accept a volume of 0 and look in the current
folder.  fopen normally works relative to the current folder.
	This almost makes the game unplayable.  I certainly don't want
all those files sitting at the outer level of my hard disk, and I don't
want to drag them back and forth.  Too bad, it does sound like fun.
>
>What is happening should be happening once since it cannot even find
>Room.1.
	Hmm...  Would you mind justifing a crash in a situation you've
already detected.  You've already figured out there aren't as many rooms
or files or whatever, yet you don't terminate the program, you let it
get an address error, possibly scrambling other things on the way.  Not
at all friendly, especially to users of hard disks or multifinder/switcher.
>Kevin


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