[pbmserv-dev] Q: about move strings

[Douglas Zander <darthdoug_1999@yahoo.com>]

Greetings, I have finished writing "BlackBox" for the server and everything
seems to work so far except when I make such a move:
-n14,-k10,10
this move crashes my test server.  on the other hand this move:
10,-n14,-k10 
does not crash my test server and works just fine.  the order of the elements
are not important so I could just say in the rules that a player should not
make a deletion move as the first move (with the hyphen sign).  yet, I would
like to know why it doesn't work when the hyphen is the first character of the
move string.  Any ideas?  Do any other games on this server use a hyphen as the
very first character of a move string?  
(It should be noted that an addition move with a plus sign as the first
character works without crashing my server, like so:
+n14,-k10,10
I'm just wondering if Richard's server has a thing about using the hyphen as
the very first character in a move string.  Thanks for any suggestions.

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Douglas Zander  Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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