Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!front.se!zap
From: zap@front.se (Svante Lindahl)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: tetris game (BSD Version)
Keywords: Errors; How to get it working?
Message-ID: <397@front.se>
Date: 18 Mar 89 22:44:28 GMT
References: <415@pai.UUCP>
Organization: Front Capital Systems, Stockholm, Sweden
Lines: 34

In article <415@pai.UUCP>, erc@pai.UUCP (Eric Johnson) writes:
> 1)Running tetris alone without any command-line arguments dumps core,
> for a segmentation fault (i.e., memory address error).  Any ideas 
> why?  A suggestion: if not enough (e.g., none) command-line
> options are provided, how about printing an error message (to stderr)
> and explaining why there is a problem?

This is a because of a bug in main.c. Fix enclosed.
Other than that, and making sure there is a score file
in place, it seems to run fine on my Sun-3 (SunOS 3.5.2),
although I've only tried it twice (not fun enough at 2400
baud).

Svante

*** main.c.~1~	Sat Mar 18 22:31:21 1989
--- main.c	Sat Mar 18 23:12:47 1989
***************
*** 70,76 ****
  
  	/* if the user has set an environment variable "TETRIS" then process it */
  
! 	if(argc<2 && getenv("TETRIS") == NULL) {
  		i=0, j=0, k=0;
  		
  		strcpy(tetrisenv, getenv("TETRIS"));
--- 70,76 ----
  
  	/* if the user has set an environment variable "TETRIS" then process it */
  
! 	if(argc<2 && getenv("TETRIS") != NULL) {
  		i=0, j=0, k=0;
  		
  		strcpy(tetrisenv, getenv("TETRIS"));