[Freeciv] Re: Load Command

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 09:06:46AM +0100, Martin Thompson wrote:
> I know you'll have seen this question before, but since I've read the
> FAQ and used the help system in version 1.11.4, and still can't load a
> saved game, I thought I'd ask the question here.
> 
> The documentation seems inadequate or wrong, or I am missing something
> obvious, but anyway: the help in my version says that to load a saved
> game, I should start the server with a --file <filename> parameter
> tagged on to it. It doesn't give me the name or the default location of
> the executable (thanks) or the saved games (thanks again). Anyway, I
> found this, and tried this:
> 
> /usr/bin/civserver-wrapper --file Egyptians.gz
> 
> Needless to say, it doesn't work. I tried it without the -wrapper bit
> too. I tried it with some of its auto-saved .sav.gz files too. Nothing.
> Sometimes the server loads, but when I subsequently join the game and
> 'start' it knows nothing of the saved game and starts a new one. The FAQ
> says to use a -f parameter, but that doesn't work either (the server
> doesn't even load).

Can you try a newer version? What is the error message you get if you
use -f?

        Raimar

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