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Date:      Tue, 9 Dec 1997 17:18:32 -0500 (EST)
From:      Joseph Moran <josephm@charon.pha.jhu.edu>
To:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   the old bsd games (/usr/games)
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.971209171129.3517A-100000@ceres>

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	Lately I've been bored at work, and I've tried installing the old
BSD games from source.  I'm running 2.2.5-RELEASE and just pulled down the
2.2.5 /usr/games source, compiled and installed.  The "sail" game in
particular struck my interest, but it doesn't seem to run under 2.2.5.
	Now of course this is pretty old code; the game is supposed to
fork off a driver which then communicates to the player's program by
writing to a file in /tmp. :)  After some hunting through the source I
think the problem is somewhere in sync.c -- it just doesn't create the tmp
file, and the stat() call fails, which kills the driver.
	So, does anyone still play with this code?  When was the last time
"sail" actually worked on a FreeBSD system?  I'd be surprised if I
actually get a response, but what the hell, I'm just passing some time
between projects. :)  I was thinking I might port it to my minix box at
home, but if it's dead under FreeBSD, is it worth the effort....

jm




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