Maybe it is time to look at a new snf2check.exe.

One that has some checksum ability.

Say you download two files not one.

One with the rules and the other a checksum file.

Just a thought on how to keep corrupt rules from being put into production.

Fred
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pete McNeil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 10:26 AM
Subject: Re: [sniffer] Error_Bad_Matrix


> At 09:10 AM 3/26/2004, you wrote:
>
> >On Mar 25, 2004, at 8:10 PM, Pete McNeil wrote:
> >
> >>  ERROR_BAD_MATRIX is definitely a corrupted rulebase file. A manual
> >> download should solve the problem.
> >
> >Should not snf2check.exe detect this?  If the sniffer can detect it, it
> >seems that the checker should too.
>
> No. snf2check.exe does a static check on part of the file.
>
> ERROR_BAD_MATRIX is a run time error produced when one of the creatures
> tries to run into memory space that it shouldn't. Only the creature
running
> into that bad part of the token matrix discovers the problem currently -
> that part of the file was not checked by snf2check.
>
> _M
>
>
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