Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!samsung!munnari.oz.au!diemen!tasman!jim From: jim@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Jim Palfreyman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: Nethack and problems with... Message-ID: Date: 23 Jan 91 22:24:35 GMT References: <1991Jan22.190404.9937@comp.vuw.ac.nz> <1991Jan23.150300.9624@fwi.uva.nl> Sender: news@diemen.utas.edu.au Lines: 23 blekken@fwi.uva.nl (Erwin Blekkenhorst (I88)) writes: >banksie@ono.isor.vuw.ac.nz (Philip Banks) writes: >> I dunno if it is just me or what but I downloaded all the nethack files >> and after an hour of mucking about converted them ready for decompression. >> They both decompressed nicely and I set them up as per the instructions >> in the readme file for a floppy drive. And what happens? I get an error >> talking about segmentation error and giving me a post mortem on the >> uncompress programme. Has anyone else had this problem? To be on the >> safe side I did decompress everything twice... >Before tryin' to download Nethack, anyone should know that it only works on a >2 Meg machine. I found out too late... >Erwin Could someone then please tell me how to turn my 4 Meg machine into a 2 Meg one? ;-) Jim Palfreyman