Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!mrspoc!kayvan From: kayvan@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Kayvan Sylvan) Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs Subject: Re: NetHack 3 strange abort Message-ID: Date: 2 Sep 89 19:17:52 GMT References: <178@bmers58.UUCP> Sender: kayvan@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Kayvan Sylvan) Organization: Transact Software, Inc. Lines: 25 In-reply-to: keithh@atreus.uucp's message of 1 Sep 89 18:14:36 GMT In article <178@bmers58.UUCP> keithh@atreus.uucp (Keith Hanlan) writes: > In article kayvan@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Kayvan Sylvan) writes: > > [ my text about aborts while fighting deleted ] > > I'd put good money that you are an exuberant fighter... Truth. > You're hitting ! (exclamation mark) - it is a design feature. You > are not being thrown "back" to the shell. You are nesting "into" a > shell. Simply exit from the shell and you will be back in the game. No. That was one of the first things I thought of. It simply dies. The prompt appears in the middle of the screen (it does not clear the screen like when I hit the '!' key) and I do a ps to find that this is indeed my login shell. Thanks for trying. ---Kayvan -- Kayvan Sylvan @ Transact Software, Inc. -*- Los Altos, CA (415) 961-6112 Internet: kayvan@Transact.COM -*- UUCP: ...!{apple,pyramid,mips}!mrspoc!kayvan