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From: bhiksha+@cs.cmu.edu (Bhiksha Raj)
Subject: Re: Games not saving? (Bus Error)
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Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 17:30:20 GMT
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Charlie Root <root@cynjut.ogisd.ess.harris.com> wrote:
>In article <2nji7s$4no@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu>,
>Vax <vax@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu> wrote:
>>The adventure-type games rarely save properly.  Either hack or rogue
>>gets a ``Bus Error'' shortly after getting a lock.
>>Larn's scoreboard doesn't work.
>>
>
>In the early days of NetBSD/FreeBSD there were problems with the games
>breaking in strange and wonderful ways.  MOst of these problems have 
>been fixed in recent releases of the two systems.  How old are your
>games/how old is your system?
>

I'm running netBSD 0.9 and I gete the same error - hack gives me
a bus error on saving. Rogue gives me a lock error while quitting
Id posted this question earlier, but got no satisfactory reply
(tho chrles hanumm did promise to look into the matter - any progress
charles?)
I'd try to debug it, only I deleted the source and dont have the disk
space to put it back on  (games are the least of my worries - Im using
the machine for a lot of crunching and its been behaving admirably :-)

bhiksha