trouble with creating the moria.sav file..

Jim Smith

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Apr 3, 1993, 1:28:00 AM4/3/93

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I recently downloaded moria88 in zipped form off of ksu, and am having
trouble getting it to start right. When i run it, it reads the configure file
fine and then gives me a message that it cant open the score file and then
quits. Did i get a slightly bad copy or something, or is it just my machine
being silly. I tried creating an empty file with that name, and the game
booted and ran fine, except that when i quit, it gave me a message that my
score file was from the wrong version and didnt record my score.
Could someone please tell me how to fix this or (if it is easier),
just send me an already created .scr file to use...

thanx a lot

Deom

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Karl S. Hagen

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Apr 3, 1993, 10:24:44 AM4/3/93

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jrs...@sigma.tamu.edu (Jim Smith) writes:

> I recently downloaded moria88 in zipped form off of ksu, and am having
>trouble getting it to start right. When i run it, it reads the configure file
>fine and then gives me a message that it cant open the score file and then
>quits. Did i get a slightly bad copy or something, or is it just my machine
>being silly. I tried creating an empty file with that name, and the game
>booted and ran fine, except that when i quit, it gave me a message that my
>score file was from the wrong version and didnt record my score.
> Could someone please tell me how to fix this or (if it is easier),
>just send me an already created .scr file to use...

This is where people have alot of problems. pkzip and UNIX
zip both do not zip 0 length files.(files with no size) Since the
score file is empty in brand new moria(till you make a score and
die) the score file is length zero. The easiest fix for this is
to edit a file add one line and save it as score. Then moria
should not complain. A good fix for this might be to make it
create it if the files does not exsist, but that is for another
discussion.

Mike Marcelais

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Apr 3, 1993, 3:59:28 PM4/3/93

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In article <1pka7s$n...@newserv.ksu.ksu.edu> grey...@max.ami.ksu.edu (Karl S. Hagen) writes:

>jrs...@sigma.tamu.edu (Jim Smith) writes:
>
> This is where people have alot of problems. pkzip and UNIX
> zip both do not zip 0 length files.(files with no size) Since the
> score file is empty in brand new moria(till you make a score and
> die) the score file is length zero. The easiest fix for this is
> to edit a file add one line and save it as score. Then moria

Easier way to create 0 length files w/o editors:

DOS:
rem>moria.scr

Unix:
cp /dev/null moria.scr

Anywhere with 'touch' program
touch moria.scr

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George Nagy

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Apr 6, 1993, 1:17:00 AM4/6/93

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On Mon 5-Apr-1993 9:14p, Jim Smith wrote:
JS> I recently downloaded moria88 in zipped form off of ksu, and am
JS> having
JS> trouble getting it to start right. When i run it, it reads the configure
JS> file
JS> fine and then gives me a message that it cant open the score file and then
JS> quits. Did i get a slightly bad copy or something, or is it just my
JS> machine
JS> being silly. I tried creating an empty file with that name, and the game
JS> booted and ran fine, except that when i quit, it gave me a message that my

JS> score file was from the wrong version and didnt record my score.
JS> Could someone please tell me how to fix this or (if it is easier),
JS> just send me an already created .scr file to use...

JS> thanx a lot

JS> Deom

JS> *************************************************************************
JS> ******
JS> Deom of AggieLand James R. Smith Texas A&M University
JS> jrs...@sigma.tamu.edu

Yeah, I ran into the same problem with my version of Umoria 5.4. The solution
that I found was to a)create a bogus file, and b)kill off a lame character.
This creates the necessary score file without a hitch and you are set. Or at
least, it worked for me.

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