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From: erickson@BONNIE.UCI.EDU (Gary Scott Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: yet another nethack bug....
Message-ID: <11082@brl-adm.ARPA>
Date: 3 Jan 88 22:19:05 GMT
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> I have brought up nethack2.2 on a VAX8600 running Ultrix 1.2 and this
> feature doesn't work. You get the scroll of mail ok, but when you read
> it, the screen clears, but no message is shown and you are prompted to
> hit any key to continue.
> 
> Apparently this bug hasn't been noticed by anyone else yet and it's
> not that major of a bug, but one that should probably be worked for the
> next release.

I've got it running on a Sun 3 with their 3.2 UNIX.  I did,
however, change the mail program from /bin/mail to /usr/uci/mhmail.
(I also changed the news file to be readable with msh.  If anyone
wants a patch, let me know.)  I was having lots of trouble with
/bin/mail and /usr/ucb/mail.

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