Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site gloria.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!rocksanne!sunybcs!gloria!colonel From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.games,net.sources.bugs Subject: hack: ' ' vs. '.' Message-ID: <780@gloria.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Jan-85 19:31:37 EST Article-I.D.: gloria.780 Posted: Sat Jan 5 19:31:37 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 10-Jan-85 07:09:10 EST Organization: SUNY-Buffalo Computer Sci. Lines: 17 Xref: watmath net.games:1365 net.sources.bugs:161 For some reason, hack(6) allows SPACE (the old rogue(6) convention) for "rest." This is a horrible choice, as you've probably discovered, because it's so easy to type SPACE in response to an expected "More" that doesn't come. The simplest fix is to one line of do.c. Instead of if (!cmd) { use while (!cmd || ' '==*cmd) { Space will then be ONLY a response to --More--. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel