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From: bob@rush.cts.com (Bob Ames)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: Large programs core dumping upon execution
Message-ID: <978@rush.cts.com>
Date: 3 Aug 89 00:34:38 GMT
References: <211@comhex.UUCP>
Reply-To: bob@rush.cts.com (Bob Ames)
Organization: NORML, Escondido Branch
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In article <211@comhex.UUCP> sysop@comhex.UUCP (Joe E. Powell) writes:
>Has anyone else ever noticed that very large (over 300K) files
>sometimes tend to core dump when they are invoked?  They usually
>work fine, but every now and again, the program will just refuse
>to start up.  Is it just me or have other people had this happen?
>
>I've noticed this occasionally on nethack and moria, but more
>often with gcc (esp gcc 1.35).
>
>I'm running 3.51a, with a 40 MB drive and 2.5 MB of RAM.

I don`t have gcc, but I have the same thing happen on moria.  I have
never seen nethack2.2 have a problem.

On a slightly related subject, I`ve been trying, for about 1 YEAR, to get
a version of nethack higher than 2.2.  I`ve never seen kitchen
sinks...

Does *anybody* have a working 2.3x version that wouldn`t be too hard
to the unix-pc?  I can now FTP, I think, if provided exact instructions
after the 'ftp site.name.xxf.fgr' command...  Or I could call you...
Or I could send disks with SASE...  Or I could ....  Or I could ....

Also, What`s happened to killer?  I finally got a DOS card for this
beast and now can`t get to killer to get ibm-pc archives |-(

Sorry for all these subjects, I only get unix-pc.all currently.

Bob Ames

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