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From: ag@cbmvax.UUCP (Keith Gabryelski)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: Adventure is being REALLY dain-bramaged....
Summary: braindead yes, broken no....
Message-ID: <6684@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 25 Apr 89 16:02:48 GMT
References: <12537@reed.UUCP>
Reply-To: ag@cbmvax.UUCP (Keith Gabryelski)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <12537@reed.UUCP> ameiba@reed.UUCP (Keith Steiger) writes:
>Adventure had been doing silly things lately.  If you try to invoke it, it
>prints lots of odd error messages.
>
>[explanation of odd stuff deleted]

The output you described happens the first time adventure is invoked:
From the makefile:

advent: ${OBJS} ${LIBC}
	${CC} -n ${CFLAGS} ${OBJS}
	rm -f $@
	echo y | ./a.out

This takes care of the first invocation of adventure (a.out) which
mungs itself to include (the default) glorkz `adventure scene'.

It actually seeks to the end of the file and tacks on glorkz,
then modifies itself to look for the text in the proper place.
Gag Barf.

The:
	echo y | ./a.out

invokes advent and replies `y' to the question "Save as advent? ".

You should have an actual adventure game after this has been done
called `advent'.

BTW, I have the diffs for the port of advent to SysV/COFF files.
Although adventure is not public domain, the diffs are.
Mostly they entail a COFF data segment dump which adventure uses
to save games.
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Keith Gabryelski                                   ag@cbmvax.commodore.com