Hi there.

This is just an update on ok0916.exe to bring the driver version to
0.9.19.3. Installation instructions can be found in the ok0916.exe
archive so I won't go into that here. Note that this driver will not
run using the old emu387 / go32.exe so the ones you find in this archive
will have to be used. Make sure you retain a copy of the old ones if
you still want to use the old driver as well. 

The site to get MSDOS LPmud drivers these days are ftp.ccs.neu.edu
somewhere down in /pub/mud. You will also find some libs there.
More important, if you want to allow a couple of people to dial
into your mud you'll have to get comdrv17.zip which can also be
found in that directory.

I'm including a copy of the options.h file so that you can see for
yourself which options were used for compiling the driver.

I have not tested this driver at all since I don't use (and don't have)
a MudOS compatible mudlib for MSDOS... It should work, as the NANVAENT
version of the same driver (20 efuns more and priority based 
add_actions) seem to be pretty stable. Known bugs listed later in
this file.

My address and email have changed since the readme-file in the ok0916.exe
archive. The old ones will still reach me but the ones at the bottom
of this file are preferred (Keep those postcards coming in! ;-) 

I'm curious about why more than half of the postcards I've got so 
far are from people in Canada tho? Are they more friendly/polite/whatever 
up there? :-) Anyway, big thank you to all the kind people who've sent me 
one so far.

CHANGES in MSDOS v1.1  : Fixed a read_file() problem.
CHANGES in MSDOS v1.1b : More read_file() mess.
CHANGES in MSDOS v1.1c : Fixed the fix in read_file() plus added
                         rudimentary wildcards to get_dir() 
                         (basically * to get all :-)
 

KNOWN PROBLEMS:

1. get_dir() isn't too hot on wild_cards, especially things like */*

2. read_file() will truncate the read file with X characters where X
   is the number of lone LF (i.e. not CRLF) in the file. I.e. unix type 
   files should be converted from LF to CRLF to be on the safe side at the
   moment. I'll fix it up later.
   This problem might possibly exist with read_bytes as well, not sure.

3. The error redirection that got written to a file in ok0916 is now 
   written to the console. The reason is that the dup'ing I did in
   ok0916 which used to work now core dumps the driver when compiling
   with the latest version of GCC for DOS...


http://aragorn.uio.no/    - Your WWW site for LPmud things
                            If you find something missing, send me a mail...


Olav Kolbu
Grenseveien 32 C
N-0571 Oslo
Norway

Email:  ok@usit.uio.no


                              Olav Kolbu


PS

I'm also reachable as Aragorn on quite a few muds, including Nanvaent
(my very own mud at 130.159.220.8 3000), TMI-2, Discworld, Final Realms,
VikingMUD and a few others. I used to be an admin on Realms of the Dragon
but quit and banished myself when I found out what ..... the other admins 
were... Anyway, if you run a mud not mentioned above please do me a 
favour and banish the name 'Aragorn' (you may want to email me so
you can show off your mud to me instead, your choice :-). Not that I 
pretend to have some sort of copyright on the name Aragorn, but there are 
too  many jerks out there pretending to be me anyway, and doing that might 
keep the number down a bit. The easy way to tell that it's really me 
is either to ask me a tricky question ( ;-) ) or make sure that the 
machine I telnet from is 'aragorn.uio.no'.