I have also had this same problem. I was unable to trace it however.
But I can tell you the problem does not have to do with diskio.c as,
heh I found it pretty much useless (sorry Sammy) and removed it
from my code.
What I did for now anyway, was to deny anyone with 3 or 11
character names until I could figure out why it was crashing. I would
be interested to know if anyone has fixed or may have an idea that
might fix this,
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Mark W. Vanness Jr.
Funcity - Technical Support
Junior57 Productions - President
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J57Prod - http://none.yet.net
----- Original Message -----
From: Nocturnal Occulto <ronnyi@ifi.uio.no>
To: <CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 9:09 AM
Subject: Ascii pfiles 2.0b
> Hello!
>
> I have installed the ascii pfile sytem and I love it. Alot easier to
> edit and handle.
> Unfortunately there is one wierd bug Im unable to fix. The mud
> crashes whenever
> a player with a name of either 3 or 11 characters logs on. This is so
> wierd and I cant
> figure out why it happens. I think the bug lies withion diskio.c
> somewhere which was a
> part of the ascii patch. I noticed another thing too, the
> plrtoascii.c program had trouble
> handling the same names and often crashed when trying to convert a
> binary file that
> had player names of 3 and 11 chars. When I finally got the conversion
> straight the
> playernames it had problems with had gotten some extra chars. Axa
> became axa?,
> tem?, vazzensnare! etc. Hopefully you can help me, spent all day
> looking at this
> and Im unable to track it down.
>
> Best Regards
> Ronny
>
> Examples of names that makes the game go loco
>
> 3letter names (axa, ole, tem, per)
> 11letter names(vazzensnare, oleeeeeeeee, odylithalas)
>
> -
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> --------------------
> http://birk113.studby.uio.no/~ronnyi
> ronnyi@ifi.uio.no
>
> I also own a online RolePlayingGame called Blackfire located
> at:
> telnet://birk113.studby.uio.no:4000
> http://birk113.studby.uio.no/~ronnyi/Blackfire
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