error with adding a new skill

im running smaug 1.4a and using cygwin to compile it... ok so far ive been able to change just about anything and everything in the mud. ive added a ton of snippets and things like that... my problem is im trying to add an assassinate skill, it was another snippet i found, well i followed all the directions for adding a new skill and the mud compiles fine but when i go to run it, it say:

Fri Apr 26 08:04:24 2002 :: Assigning gsn's
ASSIGN_GSN: Skill assassinate not found.

i put the code in skills.c and i put all the necessaries in db.c mud.h and tables.c... could there be something im forgetting??

Have you put the skill in skills.dat file?

no i didnt... cant you add it online though?

Not sure, doubt it. Just edit the file with a text editor (eg. Notepad) - the format should be pretty obvious.

Alternatively, my Area Editor (from this site) allows changes to that file.

cool beans.. i think i fixed it. thanks