I looked through the archives and wasn't able to find anything regarding this interesting little typo in the "DGScripts 7a w/ Oasis OLC patch" that one can commonly find, so I decided that I would send this little tidbit to the list in hopes of preserving the sanity of other coders. Basically in the following files: dg_wldcmd.c redit.c oedit.c medit.c zedit.c one external variable is listed as: extern int top_of_zone_table; This causes problems since the rest of the engine regards it as: extern zone_rnum top_of_zone_table; And zone_rnum is defined as an sh_int which is a short signed int. Certain bugs arise from this typo such as: - zedit new xxx tries to allocate somewhere around 1 to 2 gigabytes of memory - redit/oedit/medit/zedit save xxx doesn't actually work and your constructions are not written to disk so by simply changing extern int top_of_zone_table; to extern zone_rnum top_of_zone_table; in those files will happily remedy those errors. I just wanted to share what I've discovered from days of pulling my hair out. I hope it helps someone. -Praetor -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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