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From: kyrimis@tilt.FUN (Kriton Kyrimis)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Re: Copying saved games
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Date: Sun, 31-Mar-85 11:27:42 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 31 11:27:42 1985
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<Is there really a first-line-eating bug?>

In my last posting I said that saving a game started from a copied save file
would produce a legitimate file and therefore one could use this procedure to
save a good game and start from there each time one wanted to play.

There is a small catch, however: it seems that rogue keeps the date of creation
of the save file in that file (someone posted something to that effect a few
days ago). Therefore, if your backup copy is too old, when you cp it into
rogue.save, rogue will refuse to start. The solution is simple: When you want
to create a backup copy, do the following:

1.  save the game in rogue.save
2.  cp rogue.save temp
3.  rogue rogue.save
4.  save the game in good.save		/* this produces a valid good.save */
5.  cp temp rogue.save
6.  rogue rogue.save			/* rogue will complain, but it will
					   restart the game */
7.  save the game in rogue.save		/* now you have a valid rogue.save */
8.  rm temp

This procedure creates rogue.save and good.save. Rogue may be restarted from
either one. When you get killed (or, for that matter, exit the dungeon),
remember to repeat the above procedure, so that you have TWO save files of the
same game.

I'm sorry if you lost any good games following my previous hints. I found out
about my mistake the hard way too. I had to abandon my best game ever.

			I hope I've got it correct this time.

			Kriton Kyrimis (princeton!tilt!kyrimis)