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From: martin@hppcmart.HP.COM (Martin Croome)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: Nethack on SCO UNIX
Message-ID: <6370001@hppcmart.HP.COM>
Date: 25 Sep 90 15:56:50 GMT
References: <1090001@hppcgelo.hp.com>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Grenoble PC Div., France
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martin@hppcgelo.hp.com (Martin Croome) writes...
> Has anyone sucessfully got nethack to work on SCO UNIX. I get problems which
> seem to be related to the save/restore routines. I haven't spent a lot of time
> delving into this yet. If anyone has a quick solution please let me know.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Martin Croome
> martin@hppcmart.grenoble.hp.com
> ----------

More information. The problem seems to appear in restobjchn which starts reading
some garbage from the save file. This seems to occur when it is called from
getlev for the first time. The end result is that the newobj define attempts
to malloc some silly number of bytes like -123781903 and the game panics.

Is there anyone who can shed some light on this?

Please?

Martin Croome

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