Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mcnc!xanth!kent
From: kent@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: urogue ring dropping bug
Message-ID: <3986@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 9 Feb 88 06:55:28 GMT
Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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Urogue hackers:

By accidently typing "=b" when I meant ")b", I dropped a ring without
taking it off, and urogue let me do it.  The ring displayed on the
floor when I moved away, but when I moved back onto the space, I got
the message "Nothing to pick up", before I even tried typing ",".  I
dropped a stack of weapons on top of the ring, stepped away, saw a ")"
displayed on the floor, and when I stepped back, it was again a case
of "Nothing to pick up".  Evidently the code correctly detects the
object on the floor, but a pointer problem due to having a ring both
on the floor and (virtually) on my finger caused these results.  I
also checked my inventory, and the ring was no longer shown, nor did
"R" " =b" do any good.

I don't have access to a compiler to test the source (by agreement
with our games administrator), so this is just a note for you urogue
hackers to give you a problem to solve in the wee hours.  ;-)

Kent, the man from xanth.