Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!iuvax!bsu-cs!cmness
From: cmness@bsu-cs.UUCP (Christopher Ness)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: omega core bug
Message-ID: <1991@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jan 88 02:03:32 GMT
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Reply-To: cmness@bsu-cs.UUCP (Christopher Ness)
Organization: The Looking Glass, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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After adding the corrections to the otime.c file, as provided by David
Spazini at Melbourne Uni. in Australia, I was still getting the damned
core-dumps, though not as many.  It also peeved me that I could only attemp
saves for these dumps while on the city level.  Then I got smart.  I went
into the o.c file, went down at the end where the code is:

      mprint("Sorry, caught a core-dump signal.");
      if (Dlevel==0) {
        mprint("Want to try and save the game?");
        if (ynq()=='y')
          save();
      }

and changed it to read:

      mprint("Sorry, caught a core-dump signal.");
      mprint("  Want to try and save the game?");
        if (ynq()=='y')
          save();


So far this has worked for me and has allieviate my core-dump induced
high blood pressure.  I have yet to loose a char via the dreaded Dump.

-Chris