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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
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Organization: U. of Nebraska at Omaha
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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!

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