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From: robert@gitpyr.UUCP (Robert Viduya)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: killing ghosts in hack
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Date: Mon, 18-Feb-85 02:16:57 EST
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Posted from  jeff@alberta.UUCP (C. J. Sampson)
>   After a certian amount of time (it may be random, I don't know) the level
> will be outdated.  Someone will go down there, and then hack will give a
> message saying somthing about the level being outdated (I can't remember
> exactly what it says) and will throw away the bones_XX file.

Actually, I believe the 'outdating' of files done by comparing the modification
time on the program binary file and the save file.  This prevents the program
from going crazy if presented with a file that was saved with a previous ver-
sion of the game.
				robert
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Robert Viduya
Georgia Institute of Technology

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