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From: gs@mit-eddie.UUCP (Gordon Strong)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Re: bug with saved games
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Date: Fri, 13-Apr-84 05:19:06 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 13 05:19:06 1984
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Another vote for "fix the bug".  The circumstances:
just cruising along on ~15th level while I was 9th level
with ~60hp and a good selection of stuff (+3/+1 two hander,
quite a few wands from treasure rooms, a few good potions and
scrolls).  I had an 18 strength, reasonable armor and sufficient
food.  I was certainly considering this reasonable equipment for
a serious attempt at the amulet.  Then, while walking through a  
maze, it simply died.  No response for about 15 seconds and then
it left me in the shell.  It did save my game, so I tried saying
"rogue rogue.save".  It would restart, but after typing one command,
it would do the same thing.  I tried this several times, but on
the last time (the time I said "oh well, I'll just quit and settle
to be number two on the high score list" (I had good luck with some
leprachauns), it claimed that the file had been touched and the
score wouldn't be recorded.  I'm not an irrational type.  I've seen
people have problems with rogue before, but I would expect that
these kinds of problems would be fixed.  The machine is a VAX11/750
running Berkely 4.2.  The rogue version is 5.3.  I belive we are
running in compatability mode.  I hope this will help diagnose the
problem.  It is rather frustrating to lose in this manner when doing
well.  I know some of the rogue authors/maintainers read this list,
so I would appreciate a reply if the causes are something that is
known (and why it is/isn't fixable).  Thank you.

Gordon Strong
decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!gs
GS@MIT-MC