Re: Fatal Data error ..

From: Davies, Nathan (DaviesN@AECL.CA)
Date: 10/02/97


The comm.c warnings only happen in win95, so don't worry about them...

run it from the circle directory, like
.\bin\circle or
.\src\circle

The slashes shouldn't matter

Lastly, don't try to fix it for ages, post here second.
Not first cuz you should try before you ask.

>Nathan Davies,

>Im trying to get circlemud running under win95 and downloaded
>circle30bp11.zip and unpacked as the readme said and renamed the
>makefile.win to makefile and the conf.h.win to conf.h and compiled with
>nmake and that went ok.. (It said something about that comm.c had wrong
>integral size but that a conversion was supplied)
>
>then I tried to run the "circle.exe" in the \src directory but it said
>"Fatal error changing to data directory: no such file or directory"
>
>I tried circle.exe -c c:\circle30bpl11 It started to run but it couldnt
>read text/news, text/credits etc..  Is also cant find world/zon/index
>
>
>My question is how to use circle mud and WHY does it try to read text/news
>with a "frontslash" when dos uses backslashes :).. Where do I change this?
>same with world/zon/index..
>
>Please answer. Ive tried to fix this for ages... *sigh*
>
>-viktor
>


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