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From: rustcat@russell.STANFORD.EDU (Vallury Prabhakar)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack,comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: NetHack bones bug + blindness bug
Message-ID: <1309@russell.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 28 Dec 87 19:04:41 GMT
References: <581@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Reply-To: rustcat@russell.UUCP (Vallury Prabhakar)
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In article <581@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> creps@silver.UUCP (Steve Creps) writes:
...
Afraid I don't have the answers to any of the questions except the last.
...
>   Another problem I noticed was that when I dropped a blindfold while I
>was wearing it, I was still blind. Reminds me of an old bug with the
>leash code.

I had some trouble with this too.  I later found out that when one "a(pplies)"
the blindfold again, sight is restored.  I don't know if this is a bug or
a feature, but suspect that it's the latter.  Same thing used to happen to
the leash situation in previous versions, if I recall correctly.

My problem with the MS-DOS version, is that when I enter a shop and pick
up something, the shop-keeper begins bargaining, but a whole lot of weird
escape/control characters are spewed out on my terminal and in *most cases*
it freezes.  A couple of times I got the dreaded "Game is not in order, maybe
you ought to quit" message or something to that effect.  

Could this be a problem created when I downloaded the binary files and ran
them through the shell-script to uudecode, etc. the binaries?  I guess I 
ought to download them all again, and try it just to be sure.

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