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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!news.duke.edu!eff!news.umbc.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!inews.intel.com!xws181.sc.intel.com!mwilley From: mwilley@xws181.sc.intel.com (Mark F Willey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: linuxxdoom problem Date: 21 Jul 1995 23:24:01 GMT Organization: Intel Lines: 30 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3upcuh$d49@inews.sc.intel.com> References: <3uhe3i$gfa@inews.sc.intel.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 143.183.32.27 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In article <3uhe3i$gfa@inews.sc.intel.com>, you write: nuxxdoom on -current as of July 8 and get this response from |> the binary: |> |> mwilley.sc.intel.com $ linuxxdoom |> Game mode indeterminate. |> mwilley.sc.intel.com $ Thanks to everyone who answered. The reason I was getting this is: The new version of DOOM (v1.8) now uses a variable DOOMWADDIR to point to the directory that holds the wad file. I had this variable pointing to BFE and it couldn't see the wad. unset the variable, and everything is fine. Now, I can run the old v1.666 or new v1.8 doom with the wadfiles that I got with either distribution. I have doom, a shell script in /emul/linux/usr/local/bin that does: #!/bin/sh export DOOMWADDIR=/emul/linux/usr/local/lib linuxxdoom18 $* Now, in the lib directory, doom1.wad is a symlink to doom18.wad. If I have the symlink doom.wad, it thinks that it's the registered version and dies with some error. So it goes... Mark -- Mark Willey - Intel P6c DLA - (408) 765-3913 - mwilley@mipos2.intel.com