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A Sanitise question... after running "Sanitise" on an xyplan.dat file, is
there any way short of downloading an RST and looking inside a game, to
check to see if the xyplan.dat has actually been scrubbed of homeworld info?

Ed

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edsvga wrote:

>A Sanitise question... after running "Sanitise" on an xyplan.dat file, is
>there any way short of downloading an RST and looking inside a game, to
>check to see if the xyplan.dat has actually been scrubbed of homeworld info?
I've never seen Sanitise(from R.B.W.) to fail it's function.
 
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Well.. I have. Several times.

To this point, at least 4 separate times, and I have run it the same way as
others that have worked, so its not a mistake in running the program.

Ed
 
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edsvga wrote:

>To this point, at least 4 separate times, and I have run it the same way as
>others that have worked, so its not a mistake in running the program.
Strange. To the original question, I don't know any other way than to run
EV and make it read the file, that's the easiest way I know. Does this
problem occur always with some specific map?
 
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No, its been different maps, and like I said, totally random as far as I can
tell... no noticable pattern to why it will work one time, and not another.

Ed
 
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edsvga wrote:

>No, its been different maps, and like I said, totally random as far as I can
>tell... no noticable pattern to why it will work one time, and not another.
Hm..I just looked at the source, and it's so simple it can't fail. I think
the problem might be, that sometimes your OS fails to execute the program
completely, or executes it incorrectly sometimes. Which Windows are you
using? Do you invoke the program from batch file, or directly from console?
 
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I am using WINXP, and have invoked it both from console and from batch
file... just to make sure.

Ed
 
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Hi,
> A Sanitise question... after running "Sanitise" on an xyplan.dat file, is
> there any way short of downloading an RST and looking inside a game, to
> check to see if the xyplan.dat has actually been scrubbed of homeworld info?

Is my understanding correct that one wouldn't need that programme, if
you'd use amaster?

I just wonder as I never used sanitise so far when I hosted games...

Thanks & regards,
Ingo

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Don't know... but not an option since I don't like or intend to ever use
amaster.

Ed
 
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* edsvga <host@battlestarcommand.com> wrote:

> I am using WINXP, and have invoked it both from console and from
> batch file... just to make sure.

It seems to me that your Windows XP system is, how can I say it,
funny. That would explain your difficulties with command line
applications like sanitise or amaster.

Regards, Heiko
 
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Hello,

> Don't know... but not an option since I don't like or intend to ever use
> amaster.

Hmm... I wonder why you defenitely exclude it. I tested both master and
amaster; the latter configures games pretty well, both for thost and
phost and it gives you good control over the starting positions as well.

But just my 2 cents,
Ingo

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edsvga wrote:

>I am using WINXP, and have invoked it both from console and from batch
>file... just to make sure.
Do you invoke it as 'sanitise xyplan.dat' or 'sanitise game42\xyplan.dat'?
The first one would be safer.
 
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Akseli Mäki wrote:
> edsvga wrote:
>>I am using WINXP, and have invoked it both from console and from batch
>>file... just to make sure.
>
> Do you invoke it as 'sanitise xyplan.dat' or 'sanitise game42\xyplan.dat'?
> The first one would be safer.

As long as the file name is shorter than 80 characters and names the
right file, it probably doesn't matter. Ah well, DOS refuses to open
longer file names. And it refuses to open files which do not fit into
the 8.3 format. The main problem with Sanitise now is that it does not
log an error if it cannot open the file.

Anyway. Sanitise fixes the problem that MASTER stores homeworld
locations in xyplan.dat. Wouldn't it be much easier to give the players
the xyplan.dat from before hosting?


Stefan


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Thats exactly what I have been doing... but in some circles it is customary
to have the xyplan.dat attached to the RST for new players. I have however
stopped that function, since the xyplan.dat it attaches is one from the host
files, and thus has the HW info.

On a side note, I run the sanitise in a batch file AFTER the host run, in
the following format:

sanitise c:\autotr~1\host2\gamename xyplan.dat

I also have run it in the DOS mode using the formats:

sanitise xyplan.dat out of the game file.

I have had errors of it not cleaning in both circumstances. More in the
first one than the second. I have even attempted changing it to :

sanitise.com [file location] since the sanitise program itself is a .com
file and not an .exe

This also results in some working and others not.

So go figure.
 
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edsvga wrote:

>sanitise c:\autotr~1\host2\gamename xyplan.dat
That should not work, because that means giving it two parameters, and
sanitise only takes one.

I think it's better you try to run sanitise xyplan.dat only, and have the
file in same directory as the program. If after this you still have
problems, think I don't think I can help any further.
 
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edsvga wrote:
> Thats exactly what I have been doing... but in some circles it is customary
> to have the xyplan.dat attached to the RST for new players.

So all you have to do is to back up the xyplan.dat before mastering and
restoring it afterwards. So you'll have the pristine map in your game
directory, throughout the whole game. As far as I know, it's only Master
who modifies xyplan.dat, Host plays with xyplan.hst only.

> On a side note, I run the sanitise in a batch file AFTER the host run, in
> the following format:
>
> sanitise c:\autotr~1\host2\gamename xyplan.dat

This does not work, because sanitise expects to be given a single file
name. The problem is that it doesn't print error messages. The above
command silently fails.

> I also have run it in the DOS mode using the formats:
>
> sanitise xyplan.dat out of the game file.

This one should work. The only reason why this could fail is that the
file is read-only. I would prefer this command line, too, because it
avoids long file name trouble.

> So go figure.

Here's a going figure.
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Stefan
 
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"Stefan Reuther" <stefan.news@arcor.de> wrote in message
news:cjv55s.1po.1@stefan.msgid.phost.de...
>
> Anyway. Sanitise fixes the problem that MASTER stores homeworld
> locations in xyplan.dat. Wouldn't it be much easier to give the players
> the xyplan.dat from before hosting?

Or on the other side, to public everyone's HW!
 
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