[Freeciv] Re: How to load a saved game & set home directory?

[Andreas Kemnade <akemnade@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

MD. Nurul Abser Siddique writes:
 > At 03:12 PM 8/4/2001 +0200, you wrote:
 > >On Saturday 04 August 2001 14:56, MD. Nurul Abser Siddique wrote:
 > > > > > be available by the game menu. Hope you will implement it in the
 > > > > > future version. If I run client, it says can't find home
 > > > > > directory, home is not set. What is home directory & how to set
 > > > > > it?
 > > > >
 > > > >http://www.freeciv.org/faq/#QA10
 > > >
 > > > Thanks for answering, but it didn't help :-(. Here is what I did:-
 > > > I opened civserver & then dos prompt, went to d:\games\freeciv (where
 > > > the game is located), typed in dos prompt "set home=d:\games\freeciv"
 > >
 > >"HOME", not "home".
 > 
 > It doesn't fix :-(. It says(as earlier): Could not open file 
 > "D:\games\freeciv/ .civclientrc".
Wasn't it "D:\games\freeciv/.civclientrc"?

 > The FAQ says it is harmless & the file will be created to store client 
 > options, but it doesn't. I tried to create a blank file with that name, 
 > Windows ME says "You must type a file name". I think windows don't allow 
 > file name with (.) fullstop at the beginning, so civclient can't save the 
Where do you take that from? 
My windows book (german translation of Jeffrey Richter, Advanced Windows,
3rd ed.) doesn't say that a filename must not start with a
fullstop. On Windows 95 civclient creates such a file.
Should we change the name from .civclientrc to _civclientrc on windows?

Greetings
Andreas Kemnade