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From: angus@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Angus Duggan)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: mpss on SYS V ???
Summary: time() call wrong (for 4.2bsd anyway)
Keywords: time()
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Date: 29 Jul 88 09:00:17 GMT
References: <2843@tekred.TEK.COM> <301@pcsbst.UUCP>
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In article <301@pcsbst.UUCP> cochise!mike@pcsbst.UUCP (Mike Schroeder) writes:
>Calling just "mpss" gave the start menu asking for my TERM type,
>entered "0", got a message saying "found automatic terminal type"
>or something like that and then:
>
>"Memory fault" ;-(

I solved this problem by altering the calls to time() in slave.c - on the
4.2bsd system time() requires a (long *) parameter, and returns a long.

Angus Duggan, Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh,
JCMB, The King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, Scotland.
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