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From: leblanc@ucbvax.ARPA (Emile LeBlanc)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: "identification" bug
Message-ID: <6768@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 4-May-85 20:14:17 EDT
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Posted: Sat May  4 20:14:17 1985
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    There appears to be a (very tiny and uninteresting) bug in the
routine which reads the data file in hack.  This is probably a result of
the "%" character being used as the symbol for food and its use as a
format character.

    Try using the identify object command ("/") in hack to identify the
"%" character.  If you have not identified anything else since the game
was started or since the game was restarted (after a control-Z) then
nothing will happen; if something has been previously identified then
the first character of the previous identification line will be
prepended to the line describing "%" as "a piece of food."  For example
(assume the user just started the game):

The user types:  /
Hack prints:     Specify what?
The user types:  %
Hack prints:     <Nothing>  <The "Specify what?" remains>
The user types:  /
Hack prints:     Specify what?
The user types:  ^
Hack prints:     ^      a trap
The user types:  /
Hack prints:     Specify what?
The user types:  %
Hack prints:     ^      % a piece of food

    Sorry, but I don't have a fix for this; I would recommend looking at
hack.topl.c and the data file for interested hackers.

    I haven't been following this newsgroup too closely lately, but I
haven't seen this bug in the last hundred messages.  I have implemented
the "fclose" fix for the "/" command given in an earlier message, but
this is probably unrelated.

					    Emile LeBlanc
					    (UUCP: ...!ucbvax!leblanc)
					    (ARPA: leblanc@Berkeley)