Mapping high scores to morgue files

[twipley]

Hey there! I feel I'm monopolizing this sub-forum right now...

I wanted to know, I've just migrated from Windows-trunk to Linux-trunk, and the details of my high scores do not show any longer, in-game. I've noticed that if I navigate to ./saves/scores and there, I change the last character of every line from a "S" to a "D", it fixes the issue. I have three questions:

a) what does these last characters mean?
b) why is it a "D" now when it was a "S" before?
c) am I screwing something up in the process?

[neil]

Hey there! I feel I'm monopolizing this sub-forum right now...

I wanted to know, I've just migrated from Windows-trunk to Linux-trunk, and the details of my high scores do not show any longer, in-game. I've noticed that if I navigate to ./saves/scores and there, I change the last character of every line from a "S" to a "D", it fixes the issue. I have three questions:

a) what does these last characters mean?
b) why is it a "D" now when it was a "S" before?
c) am I screwing something up in the process?

The D versus S is just daylight savings time vs standard time. The difference between Windows and Linux here is that Windows text files have an extra (usually invisible) carriage return character at the end of each line. By editing the lines (and specifically their ends), you are probably removing these carriage returns.

You can convert the file more easily with the program "dos2unix" or "fromdos", or if you don't have and don't want to install those:

  Code:

tr -d '\r' < oldscores > newscores

(Be careful that you specify separate files, or the contents will be destroyed)

[twipley]

You can convert the file more easily with the program "dos2unix" or "fromdos", or if you don't have and don't want to install those:

  Code:

tr -d '\r' < oldscores > newscores

Hey, thanks! This has fixed the issue. Moreover, now my text editor shows the line endings as "Linux" instead of as "Windows."

The D versus S is just daylight savings time vs standard time.

Oh, my! I would never have found out...