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From: bob@cmpfen.UUCP (Bob Breum)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,rec.games.hack,unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: Nethack 3.0 on the 3B1
Keywords: UNIX PC, nethack
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Date: 2 Aug 89 13:30:10 GMT
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twong@spock.UUCP (Terry Wong) writes:

>After a couple of hours the other day, I got nethack to work on my UNIX
>PC.  There is one problem, however, and I wonder if anyone else has
>encountered it as well.  Whenever an orc or goblin throws something at
>the character, the area of the screen near the path of the thrown object
>fills up with garbage like this: 5<00085<#748!

I had the same problem on my AT&T UNIX-PC 3B1, running the 3.5
software.  This problem is caused by defining TERMLIB when you compile
it.  Apparently the 3B1's termlib is faulty.  Just recompile the whole
thing  _without_ TERMLIB defined, and all of those strange screen
artifacts will go away.  














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