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From: cbuckley@vax1.tcd.ie (Highly Doped Emitter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Nethack and problems with...
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.141933.7545@vax1.tcd.ie>
Date: 24 Jan 91 14:19:32 GMT
References: <1991Jan22.190404.9937@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Organization: Trinity College Computer Lab.
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banksie@ono.isor.vuw.ac.nz (Philip Banks) writes:
> 
> [after uudecoding nethack and running ...]
> 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...

Hooray - it's not just me! I had an identical problem. The nh.arc file
de-sparked all right, but nh_z (nh_z.dat in the file) seems to be corrupted
in some way.

Either :

	we had to do some extra translation/uncoding on the nh_z.dat file
	before using it as nh_z (and as far as I can tell, weren't told..)

or :

	nh_z is corrupted in some way - maybe due to some PC's nasty habit of
        translating newlines into cr/lf sequences. It's not happening at my
	end because that's always the first thing I check for when something
        doesn't work.

Any help, Huw?

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