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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack,comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Nethack on a 3B2 ... how to do it.
Message-ID: <6887@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 24 Dec 87 06:20:06 GMT
References: <567@nusdhub.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Followup-To: rec.games.hack
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <567@nusdhub.UUCP> by rwhite@nusdhub.UUCP (Robert C. White Jr.):
+---------------
| 	I have been reading the cries of people who have been
| having problems useing nethick2.2 on a 3B2 computer.  I am
+----------------------------^  No comment.  ;-)
| 3)  find the "terminal must backspace" message in termcap.c  the
| tget() call above this message (NOT the tgetflag) tries to get
| "bs" which does not exist in the terminfo definitions for 3B2
| terminals.  Change this to "le"
+---------------

Under terminfo, you *should* check for "kb" and, if it's missing, assume ^H.
The "Terminal must backspace" message should probably only come up if the
terminal's "kb" is NOT ^H.  (You *could* allow any *single* control char, but
I seem to recall a comment from Mark Horton (?) in the termcap for "sexidy":
"this guy's in for a surprise on V7!"  (kb was ^S))

+---------------
| These last two are the ones people seem to be messing up the
| most:
| 	A) !!!!!!! use Makefile.unix _NOT_ Makefile.att.  The
| latter file just trashes the whole thing.
+---------------

I've already requested that this be changed to Makefile.3b1 -- since that's
what it is.  Major botch on the part of whoever put nethack2.2 together.
-- 
	      Brandon S. Allbery, Moderator of comp.sources.misc
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