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From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Loop in yahtzee
Message-ID: <638@splut.UUCP>
Date: 10 Aug 88 00:33:29 GMT
Reply-To: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
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I've recently gotten yahtzee running, but have encountered a strange
problem: when deciding which dice for the computer to keep on its next
roll, sometimes the program loops. It will not respond to either a KILL
or a QUIT, and it ties up the disk I/O channel (even though no disk I/O
is going on) so that I can't run a ps -ef to find out which process to
kill from another console.

Environment is a PC/AT clone running Microport System V/AT 2.3.0-L, with
two hard drives in three partitions, and 4 meg of RAM.

E-mail "me too"s; I'll summarize any mailed responses.

-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC...>splut!< | Never ascribe to malice that which can
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