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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've tracked this down.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>When you define the settings for Mythgame within
the GUI (Settings->Game Settings) the path for:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>MAME history path: was set to /usr/share/xmame
which *was* the directory which, as the help text</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>says:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Directory where MAME history files are
kept.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>However, reading through the code in
mamehandler.cpp the exec string that is built up uses -history_file</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>or -historyfile depending if the release version is
greater that .62 or not.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So, changing the /usr/share/xmame to
/usr/share/xmame/history.dat fixes the problem, and everything is</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>good in the world.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now, to add insult to injury, the output from xmame
--help for the version im running, (xmame 0.72.1 Aug 16 2003)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>that the following parameters are all defined as
files, not directories:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>* cheat_file</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>* history_file</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>* hiscore_file</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>but they are all referenced within the setting
screen's as being directory's. But only history causes the error.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I will endeavour over the weekend to produce a
patch file to correct the issues.</FONT></DIV>
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