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Subject: Re: Tetris
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Date: 9 Aug 90 06:30:54 GMT
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Great game.  Alot must have gone into this.  A bit slow but there are ways
to make it interesting.  One thing though.  I am getting a bad shape.  I have
no idea how to find it either.  As was mentioned, this IS a big program.
The shape is:
*
***   
where these would be boxes.  The shape is fine in any other orientation
but it appears as one little "-" when it is in this orientation and is 
totally indestructable.  I have managed to avoid it by just not rotating it
to that, but I would like to fix it.  Has anyone else had this problem?
Does anyone know how to fix it?

	As for the prob with that BIG GROB in the middle.  I know that
certain versions of vi won't handle these big lines at all and ones like
mine will crash when it can't display one line on one screen.  BUT I did
manage to fool vi.  I combined one screen's worth of that GROB and then 
I moved down and combined the rest so that I end up with two very large 
lines.  If you then move to the very last character of the first one and 
type J it will join the two and then pop you into the
:    promt because it can no longer display it right.  YOu know have one BIG
line with a space in the middle.  All you have to do know is look at the 
characrters before and after the space; take 00007B 444500 for instance
and then go to the top of the file again and type
:%s/00007B\ 444500/00007B444500
and it will do a global substitution.  It will then crash of course
but back to the : prompt where you can save it.    When you are all done
with this horrible kludge it will be all right.  This will only work on 
certain machines so don't get on my case if it doesn't on yours.

	OR if anyone would like me to post a uuencoded version, I could do
that too.  

	ian frechett         frechett@snoopy.colorado.edu