Actually, it's the olc itself that causes this, it happens to me a lot. I
just ignore it and go on, and then erase the chars off-line.
On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Ground Zero Enterprises wrote:
> This is a cut and paste from my screen at the time:
>
> A Room
> You are in a room.
>
> 500H 100M 82V > rset desc
> Enter the new room description. End with a @.
> [----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----]
>
> ] Testing a new description.
> ] @
> 500H 100M 82V > l
> A Room
> *@*@a new descriptio Testing a new description.
>
> The two asteriks were actually some symbol this program won't display, it
> looked like a capital 'A' with two small dots horizontal to each other
> above it. As soon as I try to enter a line of text in any description again
> the mud crashes.
>
> 500H 100M 82V > rset desc
> Enter the new room description. End with a @.
> [----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----]
>
> ] Testing a new description.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> This is my gdb backtrace:
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