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

["MD. Nurul Abser Siddique" <tuhin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:12 AM 8/6/2001 +0200, you wrote:
> 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"?
Yes.


>  > 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.
I am using Windows ME. I think it does not allow such file name.

Tuhin.

> Should we change the name from .civclientrc to _civclientrc on windows?
>
> Greetings
> Andreas Kemnade