Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!play From: play@cwi.nl (The MC Funhouse Master) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: wanderer Keywords: screen2 Message-ID: <555@sering.cwi.nl> Date: 16 Jul 88 15:56:43 GMT References: <970@hjuxa.UUCP> <246@psuhcx.psu.edu> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 18 In article <246@psuhcx.psu.edu> wcf@psuhcx (Bill Fenner) writes: > Speaking of wanderer... I couldn't get it to work properly on our Harris > HCX-7, running HCX/UX 3.0. It dumps core if it can't find the screen files > or you die (bus error) and it sometimes locks or simply exits for no reason. > Can anyone help? > Yes, a few of the bugs in the program. First: the core dump when it can't find the screen files come from a badly placed fclose in read.c. Locking might happen when the game is aborted during updating of the score files. Future games are no longer possible unless the lock file (/tmp/wanderer.lock) is removed. Note that on some systems only the owner of the file may remove it. I have got it running on a Harris with BSD 4.3, so I think it should run also with HCX/UX. If you mail me some further details I may work on some fixes. I did do a lot of fixes already; see comp.sources.games.bugs. -- Game Keeper Mail: play@cwi.nl