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From: jona@moss.ATT.COM
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Subject: Re: Nethack 2.2 Bug Fixes for Sys V
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Date: 12 Dec 87 16:48:10 GMT
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> Since the amount of work necessary to get this completely working on System V
> in general and 3b2's in particular is apparently quite large, I for one would
> love to see the diffs posted.  Although I've spent some time working on the
> various problems, it appears that much of the termcap stuff is non-trivial.
> This has been especially true on a XENIX machine where core-dumps seem to
> just randomly appear.  PLEASE, post you diffs!

I have been surprised at all the Sys V problems - We have a Vax 8600
running ordinary System V Rel 2.0 and it took me all of about 30 minutes
to get nethack 2.2 running. I had absolutely no trouble using curses
except for ospeed being undeclared in termcap.c (or tty.c I don't
remember). The only other problem I had was an incorrect #define for
rand() in rnd.c.

I used Makefile.unix, changed termlib to curses and made the appropriate
changes to config.h.

Well, what else can I say, I guess not all Sys V systems are equal.