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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg "Bucket" Woods)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Re: Interesting Deaths - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 24-Aug-84 14:34:44 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 24 14:34:44 1984
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  That bug in 5.2 that allowed you to restart a game after being killed has
been fixed in 5.3 in a very amusing way. It used to be that after the tombstone
was printed, and it prepares to write the score file and says
[Hit return to continue]
you could send it a hangup signal (either from another terminal or, if you
are using csh with job control, by hitting ^Z and doing a kill -1 from there),
which would cause the game to be saved. Upon restarting it did not check
to see if you were already dead, so as long as your hit points went positive
before the next time it checked (when a monster hit you), you could keep
playing. In 5.3 it *does* check upon startup, and if your hit points are
<=0 it prints "He's dead, Jim" and exits, removing the save file.
  (Yes I know someone pointed this out a couple of months ago, but it's come up
again which means we have yet more new readers on this group).

--Greg
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