RE: [mud crashing when...]

From: Gary Barnett (gbarnett@polarnet.com)
Date: 02/11/97


>My mud is crashing when a previous created character is loged in, if that
>sounds confusing:  Before i added an autoeq patch or the newbie eq
>patch(forgot which one i added first) everything worked.  After i added
>that patch, characters that were created before the patch would crash the
>game once they hit enter in the main menu.  I could make new characters
>just fine and relogin to them...Any ideas on how to fix this?

rm lib/etc/players

Circle stores it's players in a fixed record-length binary file.. When you patched in
that coede, the length of the player file record increased.

Options:

1) Delete the player file
2) Convert the player file

--Mallory


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