Re: patch rej in comm.c (from oasis.patch)

From: Anthony J rye (ajrye@one.net)
Date: 01/20/97


On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Daniel Koepke wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Anthony J rye wrote:
> 
> > --------------{SNIP}-----------------------	
> > 	d->showstr_page, d->showstr_count);
> > 	write_to_discriptor(d->descriptor, prompt);
> > 	} else if (!d->character) {
> > 	write_to_discriptor(d_>descriptor) prompt_str(d->character));
> > -------------{SNIP}------------------------
> > i even tried adding this in by hand and got a compile error
> > i am not quit sure what is wrong here or what i am doing wrong, or if i am
> > just a plain idiot and should give up the whole idea of coding :P
> > oh well thanks for all your help :)
> 
> That's because OasisOLC changed the order of the make_prompt() code,
> and thus new_prompt can't find the right context.  You essentially
> want to remove the code from between the braces starting at the
> 
>   } else if (d->character) {
> 
> (NOTE, that is *not* a '!d->character', that will crash the MUD), then
> just add:
> 
>   write_to_descriptor(d->descriptor, prompt_str(d->character));
> 
> Ta'da.
> 
> 
> --
> Daniel Koepke
> dkoepke@california.com
> Forgive me father, for I am sin.
> 
> 
ohh ok thanks dan :)


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