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From: creps@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Steve Creps)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack,comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: Nethack 2.2 "ERROR: freeinv", core dump
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Date: 10 Feb 88 18:44:20 GMT
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In article <1147@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> roland@rtsg.lbl.gov (Roland McGrath) writes:
>I was doing a "D" command (in a very nice game, by the way), when
>I got "ERROR: freeinv", collapsing dungeon, core dump, etc.
>Before it died, it had a couple of "[nyaq]? "s with no items
>before them.  I kept answering "n" and it kept giving me more of them,
>so I answered "y", it displayed an item and a "[nyaq]?" and then
>the dungeon collapsed.
>
>Anyone seen this before?

   Yes, you're looking at the oldest bug to survive to version 2.2.
Someone posted a fix to that a couple of months ago, so I'm sure it
will disappear when the 2.3 patches are released.

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