Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watcgl!andrewt
From: andrewt@watnow.waterloo.edu (Andrew Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: error in  castle
Message-ID: <ANDREWT.90Feb26090459@watnow.waterloo.edu>
Date: 26 Feb 90 14:04:59 GMT
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In-reply-to: simon@shiva.trl.oz's message of 26 Feb 90 02:48:38 GMT

In article <1082@trlluna.trl.oz> simon@shiva.trl.oz (Simon Michnowicz - A Free Spirit) writes:

  I have noticed an error in castle.  When I attempt an inventory
  of some object I found, the program sometimes hangs.  I am
  not sure why.

I had the same problem.  The trick here is that one of the window
pointers is being overwritten with zeros.  The way to fix this is to
increase the length of the global variable 'string' in castle.h.  It
is currently 9, but one of the source files assumes it is at least 20
in length and zeros 20 bytes.  I increased it to 32 for safety.

The change is:  in castle.h

char string[9];

should be:

char string[32];

And all is fine after that.


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Andrew Thomas
andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu	Systems Design Eng.	University of Waterloo
"If a million people do a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing." - Opus