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Ticket #7497 (new windows)

Opened 8 months ago

Last modified 2 months ago

Not sure if these are bugs or a bad install or what...

Reported by: anonymous Assigned to: devteam
Priority: minor Milestone:
Keywords: Cc:
Visibility: Public

Description 

I'm new to MUSH'es and I chose to install PennMush (Win32 precompiled
binaries). Install goes fine. Server boots up fine. But when I follow the
tutorial written by Nick Gammon (and I'm assuming this was written
specifically for PennMush), the commands don't translate.

When I try to use the @desc command, I get Huh? (as in, @desc me = Something
or other). When I try to @dig Haven = north;n, south,s it creates Haven but
fails to link the rooms and returns Huh?

I've typed code displayed in the tutorial verbatim and none of it seems to
work out-of-the-box.

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part0001.html (0.6 kB) - added by Ed Spader on 12/04/07 11:42:23.

Change History

12/04/07 11:42:23 changed by Ed Spader

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12/04/07 11:42:23 changed by Ed Spader

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(follow-up: ↓ 3 ) 12/04/07 23:58:01 changed by Talvo

I think you need to rename the .dst files (mushcnf.dst, aliascnf.dst, etc) in the pennmush/game directory so they're called mush.cnf, alias.cnf, etc. (In Windows, .cnf files show up as Speedtouch Connection files, IIRC. You might need to edit your settings so you can see the file extensions before you can rename them properly.)

(in reply to: ↑ 2 ) 12/13/07 11:33:10 changed by Boris

Replying to Talvo:

I think you need to rename the .dst files (mushcnf.dst, aliascnf.dst, etc) in the pennmush/game directory so they're called mush.cnf, alias.cnf, etc. (In Windows, .cnf files show up as Speedtouch Connection files, IIRC. You might need to edit your settings so you can see the file extensions before you can rename them properly.)

I agree. without alias.cnf, there are tons of things that won't work (@desc is one, I know for sure). Be wary when editing files in Windows - stay away from notepad. I use a texteditor called crimson editor and it works fine. Good luck!

12/27/07 14:21:33 changed by raevnos

  • type changed from incoming to windows.

Someone who knows how should look into a windows scripting option for renaming these files, as often as this issue pops up.

05/12/08 03:17:05 changed by ray73864

Noltar already set the project files up so that if the local.c, funlocal.c, etc... files don't exist then VC automatically copies the .dst versions across.

Perhaps the project file can also be updated to automatically copy the cnf.dst files over to the .cnf files.

That way these sorts of things don't pop up.