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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Re: 2 questions on Rogue ...
Message-ID: <2254@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 24-Jun-84 23:59:40 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 24 23:59:40 1984
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In article <1929@decwrl.UUCP> luong@tonto.DEC (Van Luong Nguyen  UHO  DTN 264-6560) writes:
>	1. I have seen in this newsgroup reference to "sending/posting a copy
>of a winning game", with comments that this is good only for terminals on which
>the game was originally played, since it contained terminal-specific cursor
>control sequences.
>Is it a feature of Rogue
>or rather of the operating system hosting Rogue? Can it be done on VMS? How?
>
This is done with OS features.  On Unix(tm), people do it with "tee",
which allows you to copy your output to a file.

>	2. Are the colors of potions (eg. grey, vermilion, blue ...)
>and titles of scrolls (eg. "xcur teahdi akdsf"...) - which are described to you
>when you first found these potions or scrolls - consistent and always the same
>for each type of potion or scroll?

Within a game, yes.  At the start of a game the scrolls and potions are
randomly assigned gibberish names and colors.  So you cannot carry this
information from one game to another.
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			Barry Margolin
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