nethack.allison ff8744798d fix for U486: Can't get Nethack 3.4.1 to work ...

>nhversion: 3.4.1
>
> nhfrom: 3.4.1 Official binary release for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/Me/XP
> (nh341win.zip)
> comments: Whenever I run NethackW.exe, the nethack window
> appears, and does not run anything.  When I close out of the
> program, I get this message:
> Waiting for access to C:\GAMES\NETHACK341\record.  (X  retries left).  > The X seems to  always be either 9 or 59.  I don't know how to fix this > > problem, any help would  be greatly appreciated

<Someone> writes:
>win32 open() returns -1 if failed - same as POSIX open().
> There is no STDIN in GUI applications so 0 is a valid return
> value from open().
> So it should read like that unless that breaks Amiga code:

Since I can't test the Amiga code, I added a macro
OPENFAILURE to keep the Amiga code the same as it
is now.  It should probably be reviewed by someone on
the Amiga team to verify if open() on the Amiga returns
0 or -1 on failure.  If the latter, the macro could be
removed completely.

2003-06-07 13:16:40 +00:00

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