From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Dec 9 14:19:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA11604 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 14:19:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from charon.pha.jhu.edu ([128.220.226.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA11594 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 14:19:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from josephm@charon.pha.jhu.edu) Received: from ceres.pha.jhu.edu (ceres [128.220.226.25]) by charon.pha.jhu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA04586 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 22:18:33 GMT Received: from localhost (josephm@localhost) by ceres.pha.jhu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA03519 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 22:18:32 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: ceres.pha.jhu.edu: josephm owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 17:18:32 -0500 (EST) From: Joseph Moran X-Sender: josephm@ceres To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: the old bsd games (/usr/games) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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