Subject: Re: Virtual Reality for X on the CHEAP!
From: tpot@ironbark (Tim Potter)
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peter@gort.trl.OZ.AU (Peter K. Campbell) writes:
: ridout@bink.plk.af.mil (Brian S.  Ridout) writes:
: 
: >In article <1993Apr15.134802.21995@mfltd.co.uk>, sts@mfltd.co.uk (Steve Sherwood (x5543)) writes:
: >|> Has anyone got multiverse to work ?
: >|>          Extn 5543, sts@mfltd.co.uk, !uunet!mfocus!sts
: 
: I've tried compiling it on several SPARCstations with gcc 2.22.  After
: fixing up a few bugs (3 missing constant definitions plus a couple of
: other things) I got it to compile & link, but after starting client
: & server I just get a black window; sometimes the client core dumps,
: sometimes the server, sometimes I get a broken pipe, sometimes it
: just sits there doing nothing although I occassionally get the
: cursor to become a cross-hair in dog-fight, but that's it.  I've
: sent word to the author plus what I did to fix it last week, but
: no reply as yet.
: 
: Peter K. Campbell
: p.campbell@trl.oz.au

I've discovered a bug in the libraries/parser/parser.c loadcolour function where it was generating a segmentation fault.  It appears the colourList[] is geting corrupted somehow.  I had it return random colours instead and everything worked great (except for a few colour problems) so I know its the only thing wrong.

The colour table somehow gets a couple of nulls placed in it so when the "name" of the colours are compared it crashes.  I haven't found the problem yet maybe someone else can.
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Adrian Turner
University College of Northern Victoria
turner@ironbark.ucnv.edu.au