[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [Freeciv] Re: Rulesets, Tilesets, and Winblows

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On Sun, 1 Sep 2002 15:44:08 -0400
Todd Goodman <tgoodman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Do you know how to use rulesets in Windows?
> 
> I tried using 'rulesetdir' but seemed to always get errors.  I may be
> using it incorrectly (with a bad ruleset directory perhaps).
> 
If you want to load ruleset X located in 
C:\place_where_you_have_installed_freeciv\data\X 
then you create a file (content is not important) 
C:\place_where_you_have_installed_freeciv\share\freeciv\X

Then you can load the ruleset using
rulesetdir X resp. /rulesetdir X

Background: the datafilename() function is misused in the rulesetdir command 
(it is used to check if a directory exists instead of checking for files). 

I thought I have sent a notice about that to the mailing list earlier but I 
have not found it in the archive yet.
I have not found out yet how to fix that bug in a clean way (maybe stat() 
should be used to check if a directory exists, that should be fairly portable).

Greetings
Andreas Kemnade