Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!PT.CS.CMU.EDU!andrew.cmu.edu!jl42+ From: jl42+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jay Mathew Libove) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: nethack 2.2 SCO fix and query Message-ID:Date: Tue, 8-Dec-87 13:47:07 EST Article-I.D.: andrew.gVj4Yfy00VoDwJA0WA Posted: Tue Dec 8 13:47:07 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Dec-87 12:23:18 EST Organization: Carnegie Mellon University Lines: 33 [ Cross posted to comp.sources.bugs and comp.unix.xenix ] On SCO Xenix, nethack likes to core dump shortly after being started because of the code in termcap.c ... I can't follow that stuff at all, it seems quite convoluted, and I've heard other gripes about it. Anyway, the fix is to put #ifdef NAPOK nap(50); #else NAPOK (all the rest of the code of that function) #endif NAPOK and to add "-lx" to the libraries pulled in, which is where the nap() function lives. Now for the query: My dog starts out with a null name, but "fight.c" believes (lines 465-475 approximately) that there is a name there, and until I name (Call) my dog something, if I walk in to him I see "You stop to avoid hitting ." A minor nuisance at worst; anyone have a fix for it? Kudos to the nethack maintainers, anyhow, as this one compiled and ran much more smoothly than did version 1.4. (Further Kudos to Chip who suggested using adbL to debug... :-) Jay Libove Arpa: Jay.Libove@andrew.cmu.edu Bitnet: Jay.Libove@drycas.bitnet UUCP: ...!{uunet, ucbvax, harvard}!andrew.cmu.edu!Jay.Libove UUCP: ...!{pitt | bellcore} !darth!libove!libove