Hey Guys,
Well, I fixed it ... sort of. There are 4 users (from 2014 to 2020)
who's directories and files are owned on the server by "apache" instead
of "club100" (not sure why, but I remember seeing this 5-6 years ago
also). I will ask Don at Lizardhill to change the ownership of those
directories / files. The issue is those files are not writable and with
each download, the system tries to open the filename.dlcnt (hidden) file
keeping track of the number of downloads and increment the count. This
operation is (was) causing a failure.
While waiting for Don to change the file / directory ownership I changed
the code in the meantime to ignore errors with updating the download
count and proceed with the download anyway. So for now the file(s) are
at least accessible, though the DL count will not get updated until Don
has the chance to change the file and directory permissions.
Try the download again please.
Ken
On 3/20/26 10:40 AM, Mike Stein wrote:
I picked some files at random; some download, some don't
On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 2:53 AM Brian K. White <[email protected]>
wrote:
Ken Petit needs to take a look.
You can browse the member uploads directory, but not actually
download
the file.
This link works for me. But it just gets you to the page
containing the
file.
https://club100.org/memfiles/index.php?direction=0&order=&directory=Clinton%20Reddekop&;
<https://club100.org/memfiles/index.php?direction=0&order=&directory=Clinton%20Reddekop&;>
You can even see the contents of the zip:
https://www.club100.org/memfiles/index.php?action=view&filename=z100v0.1.zip&directory=Clinton%20Reddekop&;
<https://www.club100.org/memfiles/index.php?action=view&filename=z100v0.1.zip&directory=Clinton%20Reddekop&;>
The actual file download does not work
https://club100.org/memfiles/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=z100v0.1.zip&directory=Clinton%20Reddekop&;
<https://club100.org/memfiles/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=z100v0.1.zip&directory=Clinton%20Reddekop&;>
And this time the internet archive does not save us.
On 3/20/26 01:50, B 9 wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2026 at 9:28 AM Alan Cox <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> The Visible Zorker is super nifty! I totally see what
you mean
> about the language being Lispy. Did people program
directly in
> it or was it just a p-code target for game
generator programs?
> I'm looking forward to exploring it more and seeing if
it will
> let me modify and execute code on the fly, but first I
better
> play through Zork 2; I've never tried it before and it
is clear
> these twisty passages are full of spoilers.
>
>
> It was a pcode engine for the game code written in the lisp type
> stuff. There's a totally non lisp game compiler for it as well
> (inform) that was written independently.
>
> The Zork language (ZIL) comes from MDL which actually was a
lisp and
> is similar to DDL and ADL from UCLA.
>
>
> So, the Z-machine is the pcode engine and both ZIL and Inform are
> languages that target that virtual machine, right?
>
> John: The Z-machine link <https://club100.org/memfiles/index.php?
> &direction=0&order=&directory=Clinton%20Reddekop> you sent shows an
> overview, but gives "500: Try Again Later" when I click download
> <https://club100.org/memfiles/index.php?
>
action=downloadfile&filename=z100v0.1.zip&directory=Clinton%20Reddekop>.
> Is there some way to access the member files without the PHP script?
>
> I also looked for a ZIL/MDL interpreter that I could run on the
Model T
> computers and it seems that in times of yore those tools ran on
bigger
> hardware (PDP-10 running ITS) and little computers like ours
would only
> connect as terminals. The best current tool I could find was ZILF
> <https://zilf.io> which will run on a modern PC. Since my Tandy 200
> already logs in on my PC's serial port, it should theoretically
work.
> Unfortunately, it doesn't yet. While ZILF's command line "REPL"
looks
> very nifty, it ignores the TERMINFO database and locks up as
soon as I
> hit BKSP, looping on an error message that my T200's screen
dimension is
> -1. (Yes, a Model T displays less than 80 columns of text, but I
assure
> you, it is not less than zero!)
>
> Thank you for the resources! I've read through some of the
manuals, now
> I have to actually build something in order to learn it.
>
> —b9
>
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bkw
