At 10:13 PM 2/16/97 -0500, you wrote: >> >> I'll try porting it to UNIX again and giving it another go... but it works >> perfectly on my test win95 server here at home. It's when i copy the exact >> same files over to the mud on a red hat linuxy thingy that it crashes ... >> is it possible that the code isn't portable when it compiles perfectly on >> both machines, with ALL the code (even from all the other files) is >> identical ?? There is no complex code in it... only arrays. >> > >Heh, _someone_ shoulda picked up on this. I'm assuming you just >copied the files over, however, windows/dos puts those nice ^M`s >at the end of every line (well, carriage return technically) You >should check the files and look for errant ^M's I once had a single >^M at the beginning of a file that caused 3-4 pages of errors. > >BTW, Note to Alex, is it possible to swwitch the Reply To: back to >the person who mailed the message to the list? I have no idea how >to mail the person only with my mail reader (yeah I know, thats my >problem, but I'm sure a few of the private conversations going on >over the list would cease :) > Yeah, those ^M's are irritating. They can really throw things off. Be careful of them, especially in define statements over one line long. You'll need to get them all. +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | | Or send 'info circle' to majordomo@cspo.queensu.ca | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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