Re: Direction bugs..found it :)

From: Ronny Iversen (ronnyi@IFI.UIO.NO)
Date: 08/25/98


At 07:23 AM 8/25/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Ok here is my first post to the mailing list :)
>
>Im having a problem with directions. Like look east etc,
>when I restart the mud it works fine, but after a while
>look <dir> stops working, it simply says You do not see that
>here when I try and look in a direction. Normally it should
>either say You see nothing special, or display the room exit descriptions.
>
>I also have problems with openening doors in directions. Open door east
>for example simply stops working after a while...
>
>this is driving me insane as Im unable to locate the bug, If any of you
>have experienced
>similar problems please email me, and Ill be very happy :)
>
>Nocturnal
>
sprintf(buf, "                %sScanning %-5s...\r\n", KBLU,
CAP(dirs[door])); */  (door = one of the directions)
seems like this line was the evil doer, as far as I can tell it must be the
CAP that changes something, and makes
looking in the direction impossible...
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