[S] osx port savefile bug

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"passenger pigeon" <passengerpigeon@email.com> writes:

> I just compiled Sangband beta 18 for OS X on my Cube running 10.2.8,
> using Sherm Pendley's Mac Extras file and gcc. Oddly, when I tried to
> start a new character using my old savefile, it told me that I would be
> overwriting an existing savefile, but I dubiously soldiered on. As it
> turns out, the savefiles created by my compilation, as well as the
> savefiles created by Sherm Pendley's binary download, aren't recognized
> by the program and can't be loaded, including totally new savefiles --
> if I start the program, make a character, save and quit, that savefile
> can't be read. Has anybody else run across this problem or have any
> idea how to fix it? Thanks.

I dunno - I'm quite good at integrating things and getting them to build,
but I know just about bupkis about *band internals, and very little about
Carbon. The main-crb.c file I used is copied just about verbatim from
Vanilla.

I think I read something recently about Sang handling save files similarly
to ToME, i.e. differently than most other variants. There might be changes
needed to main-crb.c to account for those differences.

A few days ago, I took a look at main-crb.c, and main-xxx.c. Because of the
need to build on both "classic" Mac OS and Mac OS X, it's a twisty maze of
#ifdefs, all alike. Frankly, I think I'd have an easier time creating a
Cocoa-based main-* than trying to wrap my head around that.

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