Subj : Remote Hangup?
To   : Digital Man
From : Tharius
Date : Fri Jun 03 2005 11:19 pm

  Re: Remote Hangup?
  By: Digital Man to Tharius on Fri Jun 03 2005 15:30:00

 >  >  > I logged in this morning and found a user stuck in a door (Melee)
 >  >  > over night.  When he tries to log in again, the bbs gives an error
 >  > What about using "%!dcdwatch %&" as described in the documentation?
 > That dcdwatch is a Synchronet v2 only thing (kludge, really), not used or
 > needed in Synchronet v3.


Ah, I was going by the documentation.  No problem, the other suggestion
should hold valid.

For anyone who was wondering about the state of Melee, I have started the
rewrite in C, and it is slow going as I rewrite certain essential funtions
such as the scripting language.

I've noticed a bug in Melee with Sync that it will crash and exit from combat
in the arena (confirmed in 3.52 public and 3.59 alphas) though you can play
it until the cows come home from a cmd or command prompt.  It's not
generating an error message in Melee or in Sync ... so this morning I spent
some time getting the Pascal version of the door to compile again for a DOS16
target.  I will try to hunt down the problem in the pascal version, at which
time I will issue a maintenance release ... 3.59 is a lot more advanced than
3.52 and a few people had it in 2001 when I was around and the bug did not
exist then.  That was an older sync under 98 instead of modern things in xp
so I haven't ruled out DDPlus's window nt support as the culprit.

That being said, restricting the user's time in the door will help

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