i've come across this bug too.....i was told that whenever version was typed
the mud crashed..
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Robbins [Kupek] <tonyr@NWPACLINK.COM>
To: CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca <CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca>
Date: Sunday, August 23, 1998 1:06 PM
Subject: Stock CircleMUD bpl14 bug
>Somebody reported this to me as an OLC+ bug, but it is a stock bpl14 bug.
>
>Typing version at any time will crash the MUD. The string functions
>working with circlemud_version cause the crash.
>
>The fix is to change the constants.h line :
>extern const char *circlemud_version;
>to
>cpp_extern const char circlemud_version[];
>
>The latter is how it is defined in constants.c. I haven't tested this
>beyond "version" working now, but, well, it should work. :P
>
>-- Side note to OLC+ users --
>
>Also, for OLC+ users, get the social_editor.BUGFIX file (it is a patch)
>from ftp.circlemud.org/pub/CircleMUD/contrib/olc or
>ftp.van.ml.org/pub/CircleMUD/contrib/olc because I forgot to put it in,
>and it causes boards not to work after a social is added. Sorry.
>
>I would put up a new patch, but why re-invent the wheel. Maybe Del
>Minturn will put the fixed version on his page (which seems to have become
>the OLC+ site. :P)
>
>Thanks to all,
>-B.
>
>
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