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- From: chuck@edsi.plexus.COM (Chuck Tomasi)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: BZONE crashes and logs me out
- Message-ID: <1992Jul20.161241.27845@edsi.plexus.COM>
- Date: 20 Jul 92 16:12:41 GMT
- Article-I.D.: edsi.1992Jul20.161241.27845
- Organization: Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton WI
- Lines: 36
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- I ftp'd bzonec.hp.tar.Z from the Interworks machine this past weekend.
- It compiled and install quite nicely on a 360, 400t, and 425t each
- running HP-UX 8.0. It seems to have a bug though. While playing it
- will suddenly lockup, the screen will change colors and then I find
- myself looking at a VUE login screen. Has anyone else faced this
- problem? Is there a way around it or a patch to the program/OS that I
- should look for?
-
- There are a couple things I wish I could do while playing the game.
- First is to be able to icon the program. The bzone screen seems to take
- over the whole thing. While a game should provide a temporary
- distraction from your work, you should be able to suspend/pause the game
- and do some more work. Couple this with the unexpected crash above and
- you could find yourself short a few hours work if you have open files,
- emulators, etc.
-
- The second feature that would be nice is to be able to play it remotely.
- I suspect this may have something to do with the first feature I wish
- for in that it takes over. I have tried setting my DISPLAY variable to
- the remote site, but it errors out with the message:
-
- X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for
- operation)
- Major opcode of failed request: 26 (X_GrabPointer)
- Minor opcode of failed request: 0
- Resource id in failed request: 0xc5
- Serial number of failed request: 12
- Current serial number in output stream: 12
-
- Not that it means anything to ME, but I thought someone might be able to
- provide some insight into the problems.
- --
- Chuck Tomasi | "Mom, it's Data. I heard you know
- chuck@edsi.plexus.COM | how to turn him on."
- spool!cserver!edsi!chuck | -Wesley "Datalore"
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