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From: tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Tim Northrup)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: Fix for one spacewars 'bug'
Message-ID: <3668@brspyr1.BRS.Com>
Date: 7 Jun 88 21:13:51 GMT
References: <4708@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Organization: BRS Information Technologies, Latham NY
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From article <4708@watcgl.waterloo.edu>, by andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu (Andrew Thomas):
> I recently got spacewars working fine on Ultrix 2.0 on a microvax, after
> encountering the problem with 'psw' saying 'Wait ' etc and then hanging 
> forever.  The problem is that spacewar.h has an ifdef statement which reads:

#ifdef BSD	}
...		} Andrew left this part out!
#else		}
> #ifdef VMS
> #	define SWCOMFILE	"swmlbx"
> #else /* SYSIII SYSV */
> #	define SWCOMFILE	"/usr/dir/sw/swcomm"
> #endif /* VMS SYSIII SYSV */
#endif /* BSD */

>In fact, Ultrix and BSD need the SWCOMFILE defined as well, so just change this
> file name to be something useful and it should work.

This is incorrect -- I compiled SpaceWar without problems under the BSD
universe on a Pyramid (same as 4.3).  In a quick glance at the code, the
SWCOMFILE is never used when BSD is defined -- it uses a SWPIDFILE instead.

> My only question is, how do I format the documentation file 'doc.ms'?

Use "nroff -ms doc.ms" to format.

I've gotten it to play okay when running the "psw.sh" shell file, but not
running the "psw" executable directly -- appearantly the permissions
on your tty device need to be altered before the game can start.  Also,
the u+s and ownership of all files must be setup according to the directions
in the README file, or it just don't work.

Haven't played much yet, but I do get a viewscreen, and it does take
commands.
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