From: "Brian Dodd" <bwdodd AT smig DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: still having datafile problems with allegro
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 02:18:00 -0500
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TackMast wrote in message
<1998041301343800 DOT VAA00817 AT ladder01 DOT news DOT aol DOT com>...
>okay, i'm pretty sure the datafile isn't corrupted, since i've tried the
>program with 3 different datafiles, but now my program does something
different
>than before since i've changed the code. now, the datafile is loaded up (it
no
>longer freezes when trying to load it) but now when i try to blit the
picture
>to the screen it shuts down allegro because of a sigsev error. does anybody
>know why??


char buf[15];  // char string 15 bytes long
"c:\djgpp\bin\game.dat" // 21 bytes long

try commenting out
char buf[15];
and strcpy(buf,get_filename("c:\djgpp\bin\game.dat"));

and change
data=load_datafile("game.dat"));

the file game.dat must be in the working directory.