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From: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Microemacs + DND.PKA problems
Message-ID: <5177@j.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Sun, 23-Aug-87 12:10:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: j.5177
Posted: Sun Aug 23 12:10:08 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 24-Aug-87 00:08:55 EDT
References: <7700@think.UUCP>
Reply-To: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (Daniel Lawrence)
Organization: Purdue University
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Summary: bad postings...

In article <7700@think.UUCP> shmergel@think.COM (Gregory Schmergel) writes:
>
>I have all the parts to the recent MicroEmacs posting, and I extracted
>the 547K file MEIBM.EXE on my PC XT. When I type MEIBM, though, the
>system hangs and I have to reboot. Does anyone know what's going on?
>
The version that was posted was not a legitimate version.....It was an
intermediate version which I had placed on my BBS for people who had to
be up to date..even at the expense of some untested code. The next
release version has been sent to comp.unix.sources and should be out
soon. It is available now on my BBS at (317) 742-5533. BTW the MEIBM.EXE
file is about 75K large....a 547K large file is obviously corrupted.

>I also ran into  a problem with the posted game DND.PKA. 
>Using PKXARC.COM I get a message "DND.PKA is not an archive." and it
>refuses to extract the file. It does extract Cavern.bin and cleric.doc, 
>but only an unusable 40K of dnd.exe. 

This also brings up an interesting story. The originial DND program is
one that I wrote for the PDP-11 and PDP-10 in 1976. The version you are
refering to was much later ported to the IBM-PC by some company in Texas
(whom I will not give free advertising) and they then claimed to have
written, not mentining me or my previous versions which looked almost
exactly like theirs. (This is down to the dungeon names, the bit mapped
dungeon maps and the spell lists/effects ect). They then go on to ask
you to send them money if you use it.

I am very upset about this "trick" that these people have tried to pull,
and I very urgently urge people not to send these guys money.

			Daniel Lawrence		(317) 742-5153
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