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From: kyrimis@notecnirp.Princeton.EDU (Kriton Kyrimis)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: omega 0.70.5 patches so that it can run on a Vax
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Date: 26 Mar 88 17:09:43 GMT
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I just realised that I made the same mistake that the  omega  au-
thor  did, when writing the programs that convert the binary data
to a form usable on both the sun and the vax. These programs have
to be run on a sun. If you don't have access to a sun, you should
rewrite those programs so that instead of reading each  structure
with  a  single  fread, you read each structure element, one at a
time.  Notice that each structure has one  byte  of  padding.  In
struct  o_monster  it  is immediately after the meleestr[] array,
and in struct o_object it is immediately after the cursestr[] ar-
ray.

Sorry about the inconvenience,

	Kriton	(UUCP: allegra!princeton!kyrimis)
	      	(ARPA: kyrimis@princeton.edu)
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