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From: wolfer@ihuxy.ATT.COM (Wolfson)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: wanderer
Summary: Best guess at the problems.
Keywords: screen2
Message-ID: <2592@ihuxy.ATT.COM>
Date: 20 Jul 88 19:43:31 GMT
References: <970@hjuxa.UUCP> <246@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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From postnews Wed Jul 20 14:35:44 1988

In article <246@psuhcx.psu.edu>, wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:
> Speaking of wanderer... I couldn't get it to work properly on our Harris
> HCX-7, running HCX/UX 3.0.  It dumps core if it can't find the screen files
> or you die (bus error) and it sometimes locks or simply exits for no reason.
> Can anyone help?

I'll take a crack at the core dump and bus error. First, make sure you
edit the header file as described in the README file, so that
the program knows the full path of where the screen files
will be kept and where the hiscores scoreboard data file 
will be kept. Second, when a character dies, the game tries to 
put it in the scoreboard file. If the directory for this
file is not correctly specified in the .h file, it could 
cause problems.  Otherwise, try creating an empty hiscores file
by hand in the appropriate directory, and make sure that the
read/write permissions are set correctly. 
I've used machines where C code will bomb out
if you try and open a file which does not already exist, and this may
be what is happening here.

As for the unknown exiting,
On my unixpc 7300, if I hit the delete key by mistake, the program
will exit and the keyboard will totally lock up. I have to
boot the whole machine to clear this up. 

Of course, I am only guessing as to what might be wrong in your case. 
Hopefully someone else can give you more clues to the core dumps and
bus errors, and to the unexpected exits.

Good Luck!

P. D. Wolfson

From postnews Wed Jul 20 14:39:09 1988
From postnews Wed Jul 20 14:35:44 1988

In article <246@psuhcx.psu.edu>, wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:
> Speaking of wanderer... I couldn't get it to work properly on our Harris
> HCX-7, running HCX/UX 3.0.  It dumps core if it can't find the screen files
> or you die (bus error) and it sometimes locks or simply exits for no reason.
> Can anyone help?

I'll take a crack at the core dump and bus error. First, make sure you
edit the header file as described in the README file, so that
the program knows the full path of where the screen files
will be kept and where the hiscores scoreboard data file 
will be kept. Second, when a character dies, the game tries to 
put it in the scoreboard file. If the directory for this
file is not correctly specified in the .h file, it could 
cause problems.  Otherwise, try creating an empty hiscores file
by hand in the appropriate directory, and make sure that the
read/write permissions are set correctly. 
I've used machines where C code will bomb out
if you try and open a file which does not already exist, and this may
be what is happening here.

As for the unknown exiting,
On my unixpc 7300, if I hit the delete key by mistake, the program
will exit and the keyboard will totally lock up. I have to
boot the whole machine to clear this up. 

Of course, I am only guessing as to what might be wrong in your case. 
Hopefully someone else can give you more clues to the core dumps and
bus errors, and to the unexpected exits.

Good Luck!

P. D. Wolfson