Re: [VC++5] Executing circle.exe from outside compiler

From: George (greerga@CIRCLEMUD.ORG)
Date: 10/09/98


On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Andrew wrote:

>Hi all. I've been having trouble executing circle.exe when I haven't been
>in the actual MSVC++ 5.0 compiler. I go start->run, and then type in
>\circle\circle30bpl14\bin\circle.exe, and it starts up but almost
>immediately a SYSERR: comes up in the app, and immediately quits. I can't
>read the SYSERR, and log files don't work with Win95.

Someone reported that Windows would report an error on fdopen().  I tried
it in Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 myself and couldn't reproduce it though.

Try putting a value for LOGNAME in config.c

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