Thanks to everyone that replied, I managed to sort the problem in the end. Turns out Arcanum isn't so great after all :) After studying the proper format for an area file, I just took out an extra line which seemed to be appearing in each room for no apparent reason, and it's all working now!
Thanks again, Mitu > From: "Mitu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, 11 February 2003 2:38 >> I have searched high and low for a satisfactory solution to this >> problem, but I'm having to come here as a last resort! >> >> Anyway, my builder has created a nice new first area for our MUD, >> using Arcanum Editor. However, on startup I get the following error: >> >> [*****] BUG: Load_rooms: vnum X has flag not 'DES' >> >> where X is the number of a room (and there are rather a lot of them!) >> which has a door flag. Now, short of deleting all doors, is there any >> resolution to this problem? > > Usually the problem is in a room before the one reported. Open the > area in a text editor (like TextPad), if a line number was reported for > the error go to that line else go to the room with the vnum reported. > Work back from there checking for missing or extra elements like > tildas(~). > > > |\ _,,,---,,_ > /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ > |,4- ) )-,_..;\ ( `'-' > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) > BluSky is often lurking at Afterlife MUD: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.afterlife.mudservices.com > ------------------> telnet://afterlife.mudservices.com:5000 > ROM FAQ ----------> http://www.hypercube.org/tess/rom/ > ROMList Archive --> http://the-infinite.org/lists/romlist/
