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From: davidk@dartvax.UUCP (David C. Kovar)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: More rogue hacking trivia
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Date: Sun, 22-Jul-84 00:50:22 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 22 00:50:22 1984
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As hacking binaries with adb is not my idea of fun, I decided to
try a different tactic: call my own routines from a routine in
the mach_dep.c file. For those who have not seen the rogue
distribution, it comes in two parts: one large binary file and one
small C file that has machine dependent stuff in it. I happily
wrote code to dump and modify statistics and set off to use it.
It turns out that unless I install the hacked rogue as the systems
offical rogue, something I can't do, my version is useless. Why?
Apparently rogue includes it's *own* size in the saved file. Rogue
binaries of different lengths can't read each other's files. At least
that is what it looks like at this point. Pity.


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