Re: SYSTEM-WIN95

From: Jeremy Elson (jelson@circlemud.org)
Date: 01/12/97


> I am running Circle 3.0 under WIN95
> 
> For some reason i cannot seem to get rent to work in this mud. The Char is 
> saved with all his gold ect but when the char rents all the equipment is 
> dropped on the floor. so the char will lose all eq every time he rents.
> How can I fix this. Or at least can you give me ideas or help narrow
> down the error. 

This is a recording.... <beep>

The reason that objects aren't saved when your players quit is that
certain unzip programs are buggy and don't completely recreate the MUD's
directory structure (in particular, it doesn't create directories which
have no files in them.)

To fix, you must manually create the appropriate directories.  Go to
Circle's home directory, then go into the LIB\PLROBJS directory, i.e. 

cd \circlemud30bpl11
cd lib\plrobjs

Then create these directories:

MKDIR A-E
MKDIR F-J
MKDIR K-O
MKDIR P-T
MKDIR U-Z
MKDIR ZZZ

Object saving should then work.  The syslogs are a different story; no
data is written to the system logs because the code currently is
configured simply to write all errors to the standard error file
descriptor (stderr), and Windows doesn't seem to let you redirect stderr
to a file the same way UNIX does.  pl12 will let you direct logs to a
specific file instead.

Aliases don't save simply because no code exists to save aliases yet.. I 
never wrote it.  That should also be fixed with pl12.

I don't know when pl12 is coming out.  :)

Jeremy



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