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To: benyl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: getpwuid or something (PR#172)
From: Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 13:43:54 +0100 
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 12:40:17PM -0800, benyl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Submission from: (NULL) (209.88.177.2)
> 
> Cannot getpwuid(). Contact ... 
> 
> or something like that.
> 
> My NT is NTS 4.0 SP5 English installed as PDC.
> 
> The same is with different users, although the server is started
> smoothly even under administrator.

Thankss for reporting.  Now that more and more ppl are using Freeciv
under MS operating systems, my vote is for this warning to be removed.

The call is only used to determine your default nickname.
Maybe there is a MS-wide method of doing this.
 
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Reinier
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