Re: PLAYER.DAT
  By: Donald Tidmore to Anthony Perez on Fri Mar 28 2003 09:04 am

Actually, as Ive said v3.55 IMHO is the most stable of all versions and works
just fine with any netted IGMS like LordNet or InterLord and any other IGM you
can find.

 > > My users are constantly getting booted out of LORD with the error:
 > > "PLAYER.DAY corrupt - resetting..." or something along
those lines. Help?!
 > 
 > If one of your IGMs uses maint.bat, that is probably the cause.  LORD 4.02
 > forward has a "hissy fit" whenever you use maint.bat.  Does
not matter what 
 > inside, once Lord runs maint.bat, it always says that Player.dat was corrupt
 > and was repaired.  Then it shuts down/crashes.  There is an internal pause, 
 > the program just sits there until the sysop deals with it.
 > 
 > Only way to avoid it that I know of, is to forego usage of ANY IGM that has 
 > run in maint.bat.  Have discussed matter with Michael last month, and he is
 > looking into it.  But he could not tell me when he would be able to do anyth
 > in Lord 4.07 to change things.  There is one other way to avoid the situatio
 > But it means you have to use only Seth's versions of Lord and deal with the
 > peculiar way some of the versions behave on-screen after you've patched them
 > for RTE200.  Donald.
 > 
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