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From: storm@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Nethack
Date: 24 Jun 1993 09:31:18 -0400
Organization: SOCS - McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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References: <C91nEG.LnL@ns1.nodak.edu> <C920ot.BH3@ns1.nodak.edu> <1993Jun23.140652.2816@urbana.mcd.mot.com> <20bfrm$le7@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
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In article <20bfrm$le7@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
>In article <1993Jun23.140652.2816@urbana.mcd.mot.com> drahn@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Dale Rahn) writes:
>>>I have been attempting to get a recent release of nethack working with
>>X support, but have been having problems with it failing.
>>The program does not core dump but instead reports some internal error which
>>I was unable to locate and then exits.
>>
>
>Hmm, I don't remember having *that* much grief getting it to work, and
>I'm sure not getting modified binaries. If folks are *really* interested
>I could put my binary release up for ftp.
>
>Note, I haven't played it that much, but so far I've not had any problems.
Whenever I tried to play it more than once or twice, it would
die (on start up) complaining of some "init-prob error on 4 (215%)"
or SOMETHING like that (my memory fails me).
I asked about it a while back, and a supposed reason for it was that
there was a bug in the 386bsd kernel that resulted iin some
probing programs/routines getting garbage as info, and thus
crashing or something along those lines.
I have no idea if the problem HAS, in fact, been fixed.
Toodlepip!
Marc 'em.
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