Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!umix!nancy!eecae!upba!unocss!dent From: dent@unocss.UUCP (Dave Caplinger) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: spacewar madness... Keywords: spacewar SYS V BSD VMS -ltermlib -ldbm -lm Message-ID: <303@unocss.UUCP> Date: 19 Jun 88 20:22:25 GMT Distribution: na Organization: U. of Nebraska at Omaha Lines: 32 A desperate question: has /anyone/ successfully compiled spacewar under: 1) SYS V 2) BSD 4.2 (or 4.3) 3) VMS 4.6 (or 4.7) I have all three systems accessible (in a way) to me here (because the Sequent Balance 8000 under DYNIX purports to do both UCB and ATT universes) Intriguingly, I got it to compile under BSD, after a little messing around; nothing major, but it simply doesn't work. It gets far enough to "starting up the game" (or was that "cranking"? :-) and it asks me for my name, turns off echo to my terminal and hangs. Hitting ctrl-c re-prompts me for my name, but never does ask for a password. So anyway, I ctrl-z'ed out and killed the process and noticed that swerr was filled with "Error 0". So, I gave it up and tried compiling it in the AT&T universe, but to no avail because it wouldn't find termlib.a, dbm.a, and m.a. So I copied them into my account and it finally gave up with __ctype__ undefined. So I'm a little lost, and was wondering if anyone could post a "success story" concerining the successfull compilation and execution of spacewar, on any of the three systems. Your help would be /greatly/ appreciated! -/ Dave Caplinger /--------------+-------------------------------------------- Microcomputer Specialist | Internet: UNOCC07%ZEUS.DNET@FERGVAX.UNL.EDU Campus Computing | UUCP: {ihnp4}!unocss!dent University of Nebraska at Omaha | Bitnet: UNOCC07@UNOMA1 Omaha, NE 68182 | or dc3a+@andrew.cmu.edu