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I have only ever had books to learn from, so my knowledge is rather spotty. I was trying to find a MUD codebase that could be compiled with gcc through the terminal and finally lit on Richard Woolcock's Gladiator, which was a runner-up in the 16k MUD contest, so it's very simple. None of the major ones like ROM or ROT worked, and that was usually a problem with make, if my memory is correct. The original version of Glad worked for awhile, but I tried a newer version of the code and now the terminal is denying me permission when I try and start the process. It worked once, but asked me to log on as root before it would start. I've tried re-starting, returning to the original code, etc, and the only thing that seems to work is re-compiling, which is only a temporary fix. The odd thing is that I'm having problems with 1.0 now only after I compiled and ran 2.0 for the first time. I was even able to alter 1.0 quite a bit before the compiler reported a parsing error that stumped me.
Apple's development package docs don't mention the makefile but once, I have the GNU documentation for make, but haven't found anything specifically about starting processes, and I know very little about the command-line.
As long as you've read this far, I would like to find a practical book for beginning programmers about the most general trouble-shooting, problem-solving, and methodology, if any of you know of such a thing. Any other advice for a beginner would be greatly appreciated.
Apple's development package docs don't mention the makefile but once, I have the GNU documentation for make, but haven't found anything specifically about starting processes, and I know very little about the command-line.
As long as you've read this far, I would like to find a practical book for beginning programmers about the most general trouble-shooting, problem-solving, and methodology, if any of you know of such a thing. Any other advice for a beginner would be greatly appreciated.