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From: dik@zuring.uucp (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: bugs in rogue 5.3 with 4.2 BSD unix
Message-ID: <284@zuring.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 22:01:31 EST
Article-I.D.: zuring.284
Posted: Fri Mar  7 22:01:31 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 10-Mar-86 08:39:12 EST
Reply-To: dik@mcvax.UUCP (Dik T. Winter)
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Very regularly a game of mine bombs.  This occurs in general when I am
carryint a lot.  In that case when a request is made for an item and
I answer '*' the game is saved (but not really restorable because the
restored game has the same symptoms).  I suspect the inventory data
base is corrupted.  I have corroborating evidence for this from transcripted
games.  In one case an inventory listing has gotten bogus (mentioning 3
brown potions on separate lines; one indicated by i); the other two
indicated by ().).  In another case a Nymph stole 2 potions of restore
strength, but my inventory listed afterwards still 2 of those left
(while I had 3 originally).
I have heard that the problem is still more pronounced with 5.4 rogue
under 4.3 BSD unix (a vax next door, but I have not used it).

My questions:
1.  Who maintains this and is he/she aware of these problems?
2.  Is it likely to be fixed?
(I am really angry at it as it happens generally in promising games at
level 13 or so.)
-- 
dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
UUCP: {seismo,decvax,philabs,okstate,garfield}!mcvax!dik