On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Walter Goodwin wrote: > I'm gonna take a wild stab and guess you are running under win95. If so, > then the rent tree wasn't made properly and you have to go and put it > in. The items are dropped when Crash_save can't save the items properly. > For instance, if there is an error in your code that doesn't close a > file when it is finished with it, then you'll run out of umm, I guess > file pointers and this same thing will happen. Another thing is if > the person who started the mud doesn't have write permission for the > directory where the rent files are stored. (The process would be > owned by the activator, and since he doesn't haev write access.....) You mixed up three concepts into one thing. Windows/DOS doesn't have write permissions, file descriptors and the lack of the plrobjs subdirectories are completely unrelated. -- Daniel Koepke dkoepke@california.com Forgive me father, for I am sin. +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | | Or send 'info circle' to majordomo@cspo.queensu.ca | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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