rac@sherpa.uucp (Roger A. Cornelius) (09/17/89)
From article <1231@rel.mi.org>, by bob@rel.mi.org (Bob Leffler): > In article <145@sherpa.uucp>, rac@sherpa.uucp (Roger A. Cornelius) writes: > > I thought it was just me going crazy. I'm running SCO Xenix/286 2.2.1 > with MUSH 6.5.6. About two or three days ago, I started experiencing > the exact same errors. I've been using this version of MUSH since 7/2/89 > and it's worked without a single problem. > > Since it's happening on more than one system, it appears to have been > triggered by date sensitive routine. Any ideas as to where to start > looking? I'm convinced it was a date triggered bomb planted by Dan and Bart to get all of us 286 users to upgrade so they won't have to program around it's problems :-) :-). To fix it, change the declaration of days_ctr in parse_date() (file dates.c) from int to unsigned, at about line 140. Hopefully this will be included in a future "official" patch. Roger (It's sure nice to have mush back!) -- Roger A. Cornelius rac@sherpa uunet!sherpa!rac