To: Martin Kazmaier
Re: Global Wars...
By: Martin Kazmaier to Jas Hud on Mon Oct 03 2022 09:05 pm

Hopefully this will be the end of it. I got the war.cfg from 2.7, then I downloaded 3.06. 3.05 has a NEW war.cfg, but 3.06 does not. That is where I went wrong. I'm working now. Thank you for your help!

if you say so. you didnt say what version you were running from the beginning.

that's what you should do right off the bat.

what OS
what's the problem
whats the version of everything.
what bbs software
post config screenshots

if you don't do this shit it goes on for weeks.
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Re: Global Wars...
By: Jas Hud to Fzf on Wed Sep 28 2022 04:26 pm

When I visited your pastebin link shortly after it was posted it
contained a 59 line configuration file which did not contain the
line(s) in question. It's now been updated to the new format.

no it did not.
i've even done screenshots.

I would have sworn it was different. But I could have been thinking of something else or was just mistaken. So if I was wrong, please accept my apology.

you are the guy with the 59 lines

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Re: Global Wars...
By: Jas Hud to Fzf on Sun Oct 02 2022 05:22 pm

so i took the default 2.7
i copied over my old old old old war.cfg

then i see your post and i go get the v3.x ibbs version
still works. https://i.imgur.com/VjovU9O.png

Your configuration works in version 3.0 because it **IS** a version 3.0 configuration file.

The same configuration file will also work in a 2.7 installation. 3.0 did not change the existing 59 configuration lines, it merely added to them. The first 59 lines are the same between the two versions. So 2.7 will read a 3.0 configuration file and just ignore the additional lines.

so martin just has an error in his config file.

It's a 2.7 configuration file. He was complaining of only 59 lines of information in his config file and line 60 was all hyphens. Here is the end of the options in the default 2.7 WAR.CFG. Line numbers have been added and the text is chopped at column 65 so lines don't get wrapped:

57: 5 Bonus armies for occupying N. America
58: 2 Bonus armies for occupying S. America
59: P Allow direct fortifications? (A/N/P)
60: -------------------------------------------------------------
61: DO NOT INSERT OR DELETE ANY LINES ABOVE THIS HORIZONTAL LINE!
62: PLEASE BE CAREFUL WHEN EDITING THIS FILE!
63:
64: Global War expects to find the values it is looking for on s
65: lines. Your registration number MUST be on LINE 1, your BBS
66: on LINE 2, etc. You must be very careful not to insert or d
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Re: Global Wars...
By: Martin Kazmaier to Jas Hud on Mon Oct 03 2022 09:05 pm

Hopefully this will be the end of it. I got the war.cfg from 2.7, then I downloaded 3.06. 3.05 has a NEW war.cfg, but 3.06 does not. That is where I went wrong. I'm working now. Thank you for your help!

3.06 is meant to be unpacked over a 3.05 installation, not a 2.7. There are files other than WAR.EXE that are updated after 2.7 that you likely now do not have installed.
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To: Fzf
Re: Global Wars...
By: Fzf to Jas Hud on Wed Oct 05 2022 12:41 pm

no it did not.
i've even done screenshots.

I would have sworn it was different. But I could have been thinking of something else or was just mistaken. So if I was wrong, please accept my apology.

sometimes you need to rip it all out and redo it.
especially when it's operator error. everyone makes mistakes, and when you
try too hard you can lose focus.

you are the guy with the 59 lines

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so are you both having problems with it?
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To: Fzf
Re: Global Wars...
By: Fzf to Jas Hud on Wed Oct 05 2022 12:49 pm

so martin just has an error in his config file.

It's a 2.7 configuration file. He was complaining of only 59 lines of information in his config file and line 60 was all hyphens. Here is the end of the options in the default 2.7 WAR.CFG. Line numbers have been added and the text is chopped at column 65 so lines don't get wrapped:

all i know is i have 2.7 running and that's what the config was.

i dont think he even mentioned what version he was using.
it's important to do things the right way or it's going to take a month to
get a stupid doorgame working which is nuts.
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sometimes you need to rip it all out and redo it.
especially when it's operator error. everyone makes mistakes, and when you try too hard you can lose focus.

Or start over in a new directory. I have a couple of directories with some LORD false-starts or failed upgrades. I need to weed those out. :)


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3.06 is meant to be unpacked over a 3.05 installation, not a 2.7. There
are files other than WAR.EXE that are updated after 2.7 that you likely
now do not have installed.

Yes, that was not clear to me, but I did resolve that issue after realizing how many files were in the 3.05 install. I'm now ibbs capable with
league618.


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Yes, that was not clear to me, but I did resolve that issue after realizing how many files were in the 3.05 install. I'm now ibbs capable with league618.

Glad to hear you got it worked out!

Mike


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