Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!arizona!rupley
From: rupley@arizona.edu (John Rupley)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Nethack 2.2 Bug Fixes for Sys V
Summary: fix for SysV should be easy
Message-ID: <3173@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 12 Dec 87 08:48:18 GMT
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Several postings have indicated that bringing nethack up on
SysV may be difficult.  It is not.  Fixes for one SysV environment
(Microport) have been posted.  It does not take man-days of work,
just a few hours, probably less than a few trials of nethack.
As is recognized, the problem is kludging termcap for the 
specific user environment.  A run under sdb should point at
the problem(s).  No need to flag all the files for sdb, just
termcap.  The fix for one environment probably should not be
expected to be the same as for another.  

The nethack code is magnificent.  How remarkable that ca 1 mgbyte
compiles on BSD, SysV and MSDOS systems, with little change required
outside the the config.h file!


John Rupley
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