Re: Circle30bpl17 Oasis, Ansii Pfiles,Hedi t / SYSERR: Unexpected end of help file.

From: Del (caminturn@earthlink.net)
Date: 06/29/01


David Cole wrote:
>
> All the help files (*.hlp) are in a bunch of jarbled stuff. Like when you
> open a .exe file in a ansii text program. You get numbers to the left and
> some form of jarbled text to the right. I looked at the feof() stuff but
> nothing seemed wrong. Outplace. Etc. The Mud compiles compleatly clean, no
> errors. I did have to add something to a msvc++ file. But it was _filneo
> some errors in disko.c with the ansii pfiles, but one i add int _filneo; to
> the list it works.
>
> Maybe the format of the *.hlp files are bad, but they look the same way they
> always have and the index files are perfect stock and in order with the nice
> little $ at the end of it. This really sucks. I want to use circle cause it
> is much better then smaug. but i already have a smaug mud running in less
> then 5 min with no problems and am still boggling over circle.
>
> I don't wanna use smaug but this whole error after error thing in circle is
> begining to drain my energy's in using it. Anyone got any other ideas as to
> what may be wrong?
>

Sounds like your decompression, or possibly the ftp session corrupted the files.
Try starting from scratch and download the package again (making sure you
use binary transfer).
Thats the only suggestion I have, due to the variety of files that appear
to be corrupt.

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