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From: kyrimis@tilt.FUN (Kriton Kyrimis)
Newsgroups: net.sources.games
Subject: Re: bug in phantasia 3.3.1+
Message-ID: <369@tilt.FUN>
Date: Wed, 13-Nov-85 12:34:48 EST
Article-I.D.: tilt.369
Posted: Wed Nov 13 12:34:48 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 14-Nov-85 20:33:07 EST
References: <363@tilt.FUN> <856@houxl.UUCP>
Reply-To: kyrimis@tilt.UUCP (Kriton )
Organization: Princeton University CS Dept
Lines: 25
Keywords: phant -x -S
Summary: temporary fix does not always work
In article <856@houxl.UUCP> oaa@houxl.UUCP (O.ALEXANDER) writes:
>A tempory fix for this bug, where characters are not removed automatically and
>if the dead character was a king, no one else can be afterwards, is to manually
>remove any characters that should be. Issue the command:
> phantasia -x -S
>answer "" to the name prompt, then type "D" to delete the character.
>This will only work if you are the super-user as defined by the program when
>it was made.
Unfortunately this doesn't work if someone else dies before you
get a chance to delete . If that happens, gets the
characteristics of the last player that dies, but phantasia still
thinks that the king is someone named , whose characteris-
tics are those of the now defunct king.
My rather drastic solution was to re-create the characs file, and
populate it by hand, using the -x -S options.
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Kriton (princeton!tilt!kyrimis)
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