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["Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>]

Dufflebunk said:
> It has never reinstalled. In the past it would just fail silently. What
> would you want it to do, resurect the spell, or recompile?
>
> On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 10:48, Jeremy Kolb wrote:
>> why do spells that are already installed not cast when i do a cast
>> spellname? why do i have to use the -c options? seems silly to me!
>> maybe  a timed our message or something would be better, but i don't
>> like it  saying that the cast failed because the spell is already
>> installed, it  should just 'reinstall' the program i think.

'cast <spell>' used to resurrect the spell if the archive was there,
otherwise it would recompile.  To force a recompile, one would do 'cast -c
<spell>'.  This is how it was, I don't know how/why it changed (bug?).

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