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From: bostrov@prism.cs.orst.edu (Vareck Bostrom)
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Subject: Re: BSD Games
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Date: 25 Apr 91 04:25:58 GMT
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In <1991Apr24.200109.6499@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> mitroo@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Varun Mitroo) writes:

>In article <1991Apr24.152732.7784@engin.umich.edu> dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu (Nik Anthony Gervae) writes:
>>  Has anyone out there ported the BSD4.3 games (wump, rogue at al) to NeXT?
>>Does anyone know of any way I could get them (and online man pages). NeXT
>>is said to package a "complete" BSD UNIX, but we all know it ain't complete
>>if there's nothing in it that supports considerable wasting of cpu time. ;-)
>>
>I just installed Nethack on my cublast week.  There was no problem
>in compiling and installing it at all.

>Varun
>-- 
>You are young, they are old Control is all they've got to give
>Just live how you want to live Tiny things that make you slave
>Like a chain, an anchor to the bed of the sea


To save anyone problems in compiling either nethack or empire, remember to
add the following compiler options:
-fwritable-strings -Dconst="" -Dchar=""

I had a few problems with nethack 3.0 until i did this. Same with 
bsd empire.