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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
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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

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   Mark Willey - Intel P6c DLA - (408) 765-3913 - mwilley@mipos2.intel.com