Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucla-cs.ARPA
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!cepu!ucla-cs!ampe
From: ampe@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: Spaces on input
Message-ID: <5008@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 25-Apr-85 04:30:55 EST
Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.5008
Posted: Thu Apr 25 04:30:55 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Apr-85 06:22:13 EST
References: <275@tilt.FUN>
Reply-To: ampe@ucla-cs.UUCP (John Ampe)
Distribution: net
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Lines: 19
Summary: 


In article <275@tilt.FUN> kyrimis@tilt.FUN (Kriton Kyrimis) writes:

>The input routine in hack 1.0.2 does not seem to recognise spaces. ...
...
>	Kriton Kyrimis	(princeton!tilt!kyrimis)

The bug lies in the getlin() routine in hack.tty.c.  This file includes
ctype.h, which defines isprint().  On some machines, isprint() answers
false to spaces, thus the error.  A fix is to change line 127 of
hack.tty.c from:

		} else if(isprint(c)) {
to:
		} else if(isprint(c) || c == ' ') {


			--John Ampe
			    UCLA