Matrix Games Forums

i was playing pbem korea 50/51 with toaw III - last patch ( 3.0.19), round 20th turn, and it was all right. Yesterday i received opponent's turn and when i start to play, on the screen ther was an error message

next unit invalid n.......
will fix

OK
When i press ok it returns to the same screen ( change only number) and so on....

anyone has the same error message ? how can i resolve the bug?

thank you for answers

Hi, please zip and attach the pbl file to a post in this thread. Thanks.

I try to attach but i don't see how i can. I uninstall all toaw 3 and patches and reinstall it from begin, but error message still stays on.

If it is not a problem i'll email you the image of the error and the *.pbl file, ox please xplain me how can i attach a file in this post.
luigi

Hi,

Instructions are in English and for Windows XP. If your computer language is different, then some descriptions may vary.

Step 1: In a known location of your computer, create a new folder, and put the files into it by dragging and dropping, moving, or copying and pasting.
Step 2: Right click on the folder, and select "Send to..."
Step 3: Select "Compressed (zipped) Folder" from the slide out menu items.
Step 4: Open this thread and open the dialogue box to post a reply.
Step 5: Click on the link below the message box named "Click here to upload".
Step 6: From the popup box, choose "Browse" to navigate to the zipped folder that you created in Step 3.
Step 7: Click "OK" in the popup box, and wait until the file uploads. Box will close if successful.
Step 8: Post your reply by clicking "OK".
Step 9: Wait patiently for us to figure out WTF happened...[;)]

here the zip

ORIGINAL: SUPPOSTA

i was playing pbem korea 50/51 with toaw III - last patch ( 3.0.19), round 20th turn, and it was all right. Yesterday i received opponent's turn and when i start to play, on the screen ther was an error message

next unit invalid n.......
will fix

OK
When i press ok it returns to the same screen ( change only number) and so on....

anyone has the same error message ? how can i resolve the bug?

thank you for answers

We've also seen occasional reports of email messing up the file. Can you ask him to send you both a raw .pbl file, and to zip it and send it to you? See if either of those work.

Thanks,
Ralph

here are raw pbl file and zip file ( in which it is _do_not_send. too. i will test them monday night and i will answer it is all right, but i don't have much hope.
can you explain me what's the diference in sending raw pbl file and zip file? Losing data on the net?

this is zip file

ORIGINAL: SUPPOSTA

here are raw pbl file and zip file ( in which it is _do_not_send. too. i will test them monday night and i will answer it is all right, but i don't have much hope.
can you explain me what's the diference in sending raw pbl file and zip file? Losing data on the net?

There are two possible causes for corruption.
1) the actual transmission sometimes gets messed up. I'm convinced that some ISPs use rfc 1149
2) Some zip clients don't play nice with others. I tried either winzip or winrar (don't remember which) last year, and found that some people were unable to open the zip file, so I've switched back to using the windows XP built-in zip. Zip files have the advantage that they have a checksum built-in, so they should raise an error if the transmission wasn't accurate.

it works! [&o]
using zipped file from the opponent, i can play again.
Thank you everybody for kindness, courtesy and for the useful suggest given.
thank you again
supposta[:D] ( the happiest man playing toaw)