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
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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.
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