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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman)
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Subject: Re: f <dir>
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Date: Thu, 17-May-84 09:56:31 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 17 09:56:31 1984
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["Ice monsters are great for keeping potions chilled." --Conan the Bavarian]

Unfortunately, I can confirm R.H.'s report.  Sometimes I have more than
enough HP to sustain a single blow, but still get wiped out.  I suspect
that there are two problems:

	against a Fly-Trap, there's no maximum damage to look up.
	So don't "f" a fly-trap.

	goofs in the table of maximum damages by monster.

Not that I have verified the existence of such a table ...

	third point:  obviously a stuttering terminal will evoke
	the same phenomenon.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
...seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel