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From: jbs@mit-eddie.UUCP (Jeff Siegal)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: several queries
Message-ID: <795@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Dec-85 22:54:43 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 18 22:54:43 1985
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In article <1461@jhunix.UUCP> ins_akaa@jhunix.UUCP (Kenneth Adam Arromdee) writes:
>I cannot read this group but I can still post messages here.  Does anybody
>know:
>1) If there's any way to prevent being turned to stone by a cockatrice 
>once the process has started?

Eat an acid blob (dead, of course)

>2) Where (what level?) is the Amulet on? 

29 or 30, I think.

>3) Where do you find the postman?  A "strings" applied to Hack showed me 
>that such a thing exists, and so do the messages in the fortune cookies,
>but I have never found one.  I even tried sending myself a mail message;
>it didn't work. 

Sending a mail message to yourself will work, but you must have your
MAIL environment variable set to your mail spool file (e.g. 
/usr/spool/mail/ins_akaa)

When you receive mail while playing hack, the postman will give you 
"a scroll of mail" which, when read, will through you into the Unix(*)
mail program.

Jeff Siegal - MIT EECS (jbs@mit-eddie)