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From: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS])
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Re: what happened??
Message-ID: <1348@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-May-85 10:14:01 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  6 10:14:01 1985
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In article <6788@ucbvax.ARPA> wedgwood@ucbvax.ARPA (John Wedgwood) writes:
>I was in the middle of a game of srogue, at about level 34 or so,
>when, in the middle of lighting up a room, the game died.

>The last message displayed was "can't find monster in show file."
>or something like that.

>I have been unable to restart the game (the game saved itself before
>dying).

>Any ideas as to what may have happened here?
>Is it worth playing this version of the game again??
>Will it happen again??

>Thanks in advance for any comments,

>John Wedgwood

our version doesn't save when that message is printed.  instead, we get
a segmentation fault.  some versions of srogue save themselves on any
signal.  your's apparently saved itself due to a segmentation fault or
something trying to using a null pointer.  many versions of 3.6 save on
any excuse.  rogue tends to make a lot of assumptions about pointers
being valid.  there is no real way to safely restart the game and
continue.  luckily, this is a fairly rare event, happening only twice
in all the time we have had srogue.

Herb Chong...

I'm user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble....

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