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From: 6600pete@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu
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Subject: Re: NetHack 3.0p5 vs. THINKC4 (and the winner is....)
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Date: 27 Oct 89 07:59:38 GMT
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In-reply-to: sho@maxwell.physics.purdue.edu's message of 21 Oct 89 23:09:28 GMT

> 2) there was a bug (sort of) in makedefs.c, which was passing a
>    C string to OpenResFile.  (works in MPW, not in THINKC)  This
>    occred when writing the monster info as a resource.

Known quirk of the ROMs. Has to do with 32-bit cleanliness and a printer
driver bug. There's a tech note on it. MPW probably knows about it and
has a fix for it in glue, whereas THINK probably doesn't.
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