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- From: chris@castlab.uucp (Christian)
- Subject: Re: Bronco dB
- Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
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- Date: 31 Dec 92 10:19:50 CST
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.101950.3133@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
- References: <1992Dec30.224156.11488@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <isae.725792226@pv6642.vincent.iastate.edu>
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- In article <isae.725792226@pv6642.vincent.iastate.edu> isae@iastate.edu (Gadjah Mada) writes:
- >In <1992Dec30.224156.11488@doug.cae.wisc.edu> chris@inconel.uucp (Christian) writes:
- >>Ok, call me shmoo, but now that I have the wonderfully plump and robust
- >>bronco dB, how the heck do I get it to work with my server?
- >
- >Use the newscores program in the tools directory.
- >% newscores -u
- >Usage: newscores < scoredb
-
- Yes, thats what i thought to, but the thing is scores does a core dump! I
- can't create the ASCII file to edit! (Whitness pledits spooging.) Now,
- to double check I ran scores on inconel own (modest) dB, and it worked.
- So, somewhere in that 1.6 MB bronco dB, scores has a fit and decides to go
- to tea.
-
- I could use dbx and watch where scores dies, but I thing the trace would take
- a loooong time to run (scores chugs away for a bit before dieing.)
-
- >
- >Before Terence officially 'closed' bronco, he found out something
- >about the database being corrupted by some weird control chars in players'
- >keymaps. Those players were assumed to be users of the latest Pigborg.
- >You need to find a good editor to get rid of those control chars, I guess.
- >(that is, before you run newscores to generate .players and .global)
- >I had to do that once but since then I never touched the database at all.
- >Maybe someone else could give more info about this.
- >
- >-Rony
- > isae@IASTATE.EDU
-
- -chris
-