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From: choke@wet.UUCP (Sean Gallaty)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: Nethack problem
Message-ID: <2202@wet.UUCP>
Date: 12 Mar 91 08:38:59 GMT
References: <2346@aber-cs.UUCP>
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco
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In article <2346@aber-cs.UUCP> aag@cs.aber.ac.uk (Angela Gilham) writes:
>I run a copy of nethack on a dec system running Ultrix 
>4.0. It lives in my area of the filesystem and runs fine
>for me. Unfortunately, for many other people this is not
>the case. The two most common problems are that when a 
[...]

I would perhaps suggest that you get the game installed properly by
the sysadmin instead of wasting file space with redundant copies?
If you want to misbehave, compile nethack to use /usr/spool/uucppublic
or /tmp as it's home dir.
I hope that your system administrator reads this newsgroup too.