Please read the CircleMUD mailing list FAQ which has a link at the bottom of this and every message sent to the CircleMUD list. Pay extra special attention to the section on proper quoting. 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. If it looks like that it means you're looking at the file in a hex editor, not a regular text editor. At any rate, the CircleMUD help files are plain old ASCII text and should be perfectly readable in any text editor you fancy to use with one possible exception: The stock files are in Unix text format which uses a different line-ending format than Windows uses. Some Windows editors will display the files correctly and some will appear to not have any line breaks but will have boxes where the lines are. CircleMUD should be able to read the files with no problem on a Windows platform regardless of which line-ending format the files use, but to be safe you may want to convert them to Windows format with a unix2dos type conversion program (jsut type unix2dos in just about any search engine and you'll get lots of hits). > 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. Yep, that's a known issue with ascii pfiles (I really don't know what drove Sammy to take such an approach when he did that). At any rate, ascii pfiles are not part of the stock CircleMUD distribution. If you got a server with ascii pfiles pre-installed then I would suggest that what you downloaded is a contributed (read not official from CircleMUD) server. I would recommend downloading the latest version (bpl18) of _stock_ CircleMUD and seeing if your problem is reproducable there. > 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. From all indications your problem is most likely _not_ CircleMUD. It could be because you are using a contributed (read unsupported) server, or that you might be downloading the binary package with your FTP client set to ASCII mode as Del suggested. Another possibility is that your compiler's libraries are messed up, or there's something else distinctly wrong with your compiler. At any rate, there have been many people who have successfully run CircleMUD in Windows using VC. I _know_ (not from personal experience, but from the experience of many others) that _stock_ CircleMUD runs just fine under Windows. That means that whatever your problem is it lies beyond the scope of a problem with stock CircleMUD. I am not saying that you do not deserve support from the CircleMUD community for your difficulties. To the contrary, we are all here to support each other (among other things). What I am asking is that you please not place the blame for your problems on CircleMUD itself. Regards, Peter -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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