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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: nethack for vms ??
Message-ID: <7707@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 88 00:33:13 GMT
References: <13097@brl-adm.ARPA> <3531@ece-csc.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.sources.wanted
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <3531@ece-csc.UUCP> by jnh@ece-csc.UUCP (Joseph Nathan Hall):
+---------------
| In article <13097@brl-adm.ARPA> XGRUUNIX%DDATHD21.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (unix-src account) writes:
| >Has anybody tried to port NETHACK to VAX/VMS ?
| 
| It's not too difficult.  Basically you need to do a couple of things:
| 
> (deleted)
| 
| 2)	(annoying but not too hard) You need to deal with some of the
| 	UNIX system calls that aren't supported under VMS.  The termcap
| 	stuff is easy enough to bypass if the idea of supporting only
| 	VT100 etc is ok with you; in that case use the MS-DOS ANSI-type
| 	sequences that are basically the same.  You can get fancy and
| 	modify things to use the VT100 graphics characters, but this is
| 	a lot of trouble to do correctly.
+---------------

Bullpuckey.  The support's already there:  DEC Rainbow graphics are virtually
identical to VT100 graphics.  I modified this under Unix in 1/2 hour; most
of which time was in modifying the HACKOPTIONS processing to have an eighth-
bit quoting technique.  (I used ? as the quote character; ?? is a single
?, and ??? is an eighth-bit ?.)

BTW, guys, when did the patches go out, and in which newsgroup?  I haven't
seen them here on ncoast yet.  Can someone please mail them to me?  Thanks
in advance.
-- 
	      Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc
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