Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!munnari!natmlab!dmsadel!augean!idall
From: idall@augean.OZ (Ian Dall)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: NetHack Woes
Message-ID: <276@augean.OZ>
Date: 22 Dec 87 00:03:05 GMT
References: <2361@killer.UUCP> <4435@ihlpg.ATT.COM> <630@umbc3.UMD.EDU> <2394@killer.UUCP> <3394@sigi.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: idall@augean.OZ (Ian Dall)
Organization: Engineering Faculty, University of Adelaide, Australia
Lines: 23
Keywords: Nethack 2.2  3B2  System V  IT WORKS

In article <3394@sigi.Colorado.EDU> grubin@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Rick Grubin) writes:
>Just a few more
>bugs to fix (like why zapping wands leave trails of `L' on the screen)
>and all will be OK.
>
I had a similar problem porting Hack (NOT NetHack) to SysV. The problem was
that even using the termcap compatibility functions, padding characters are
specified differently with terminfo. Consequently characters which would
specify padding characters just get sent to the screen when using terminfo.

The padding characters are used to cause flights of arrows, blazes of fire,
bolts of cold etc to take a definite time (50ms per space I think).

I don't have the sources or the documentation to hand but I seem to recall
it involved putting angle brackets round some digits in a character string
argument to "tputs".



-- 
 Ian Dall           "In any argument there will be people on your
                     side who you wish were on the other side."
idall@augean.oz