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Topic: PRODUCT RECALL, builder and olc
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Hippie
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posted 06-26- 04:48 AM
  
Found a nasty bug in builder and olc,
you should all stop using extractor/builder and upgrade
to ol tools ol-7.zip.
http://www.mcnett.org/fst/users/gosulliv/ol-7.zip It is likely that .sm file corruption will
occur. Except for Bjorn's version of builder,
all other versions of builder and olc prior
to -7 have the bug. Tailslide, you should be able to process terrain .sm and .ol files with it OK now.
Sorry guys and gals,
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Tailslide
Pilot
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posted 06-26- 05:36 AM
ACK! Does this mean I've corrupted my Yak? It seems OK.
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Hippie
Pilot
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posted 06-26- 08:27 AM
Tail, it is possible you may have done bad things to your Yak. The bug was basically a
failure to close the output file, the last
writes to the file may not have been flushed.
I never noticed it happen with a fighter .SM
file but it could. The only symptom would be
groups towards the end of the file would have a length of zero bytes.Hippie. IP: Logged |
Laika 801
Pilot
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posted 06-26- 02:15 PM
 EEEEEKKKK ! I hope the Pe still works (for me it does) ! LK IP: Logged |
Hippie
Pilot
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posted 06-26- 06:27 PM
If you decompile your .sm files with smd,
and have a look at the .ol file check for
any unexplained zero length groups.e.g. [Group:99]
[ENDGroup:99] If you don't have any of these you are probably in the clear. If you do have some like this you can
straighten it out by moving the
[ENDGroup:xxx] to the right place and
recompiling. I never saw symptoms of the problem until I started
working on the dover terrain file, so
chances are none of the aircraft .sm files
will have been bitten by the bug, but
better safe than sorry. Hippie
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Laika 801
Pilot
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posted 06-27- 07:52 AM
I took a first look, and so far no problems. But not really sure.The problem could be (if there's a zero group) to find the right position for the [ENDGroup:xxx]. You would assist ?  LK IP: Logged |
Hippie
Pilot
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posted 06-27- 07:06 PM
Lakia,I would have thought that you would be intimately familiar
with the grouping structure of your aircraft
and should be able to spot the obvious place
for any wrong [ENDgroup] records to go  Hippie IP: Logged |
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