Re: mortals forcing logoffs

From: Edward Almasy (almasy@axis.com)
Date: 08/01/95


Jeremy Elson writes:
> > Anyways, some of our mortals have found out about a bug that is really 
> > annoying to others. When one person logs in and starts playing, someone 
> > else uses their name at the login prompt and then types in three bogus 
> > passwords.  At theis time Circle 3.0 dumps both chars, the one loggin in, 
> > and the one playing the game.
> > 
> > Any suggestions?  I'm out of ideas.
> 
> This is a known bug introduced in pl8 and fixed in pl9.

Not to be difficult, but this is sort of like telling somebody who has
just fallen overboard "Oh, we're going to be handing out life preservers
tomorrow."  Could you share the known fix for it with us?  Or is pl9 due
out very soon?


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