From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10495 invoked by alias); 17 May 2008 22:55:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 10485 invoked by uid 22791); 17 May 2008 22:55:32 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from vms048pub.verizon.net (HELO vms048pub.verizon.net) (206.46.252.48) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 17 May 2008 22:55:13 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.47] ([71.186.201.238]) by vms048.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0K11004PPBNECA35@vms048.mailsrvcs.net> for xconq7@sources.redhat.com; Sat, 17 May 2008 17:54:50 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 22:55:00 -0000 From: Jeff Mullen Subject: Newbie Looking for Some Answeres To: xconq7@sources.redhat.com Message-id: <482F6238.40101@verizon.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Email 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061107) Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2 I'm basically exploring Xconq, and went to check out the "Advances Through History" set-up. It's left me scratching my head. I can't get 20 turns into the scenario without the program just up and terminating. It always happens after I try to put in a new research goal. I'm running under freespire 1.0 on an IBM PC compatible that I built myself. I'm a long time C Programmer. This is a bug of one kind or another. If I'm losing the game and it's not telling me this, it's a design bug. If it's running into some contradiction in the research goals that it simply can't handle and giving up without so much as printing an Fatal Error Message, then it's a coding bug. Even if my machine is running out of memory (one of the $#@)(! RAM sticks went bad and I haven't had a chance to replace it yet, so I'm down to a measly 256 megs of the ol' PC2100), there should be some indication that this is what is happening. There isn't. The program just stops running. Either way, I'm being left high and dry, and it's really annoying me. Whenever one designs a program, one should have it provide something called "graceful degradation"--that is, when it bombs, IT SHOULD GIVE YOU SOME IDEA AS TO WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!! Any help would be appreciated. Please reply to the email address from which this message was sent, as I have no idea what the mailing list is let alone how to get on it, and I'm not in any mood right now to spend the time to find out. Any help that could be given will be appreciated. I promise that I'll be calmed down and nice and shiny polite by the time I reply to any replies. No need to mistreat folks who are trying to help. Thanks in advance. Jeff