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From: edlee@chinet.chi.il.us (Edward Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Minor bug in nethack 2.3e
Message-ID: <8571@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 28 May 89 01:43:29 GMT
References: <401@nbires.nbi.com>
Reply-To: edlee@chinet.chi.il.us (Edward Lee)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <401@nbires.nbi.com> maa@nbires.UUCP (Mark Armbrust) writes:
>
>I had a bit of a problem getting nethack 2.3e running on my system.  I tracked
>the problem down to the fact that nethack discards the TERMCAP environment
>variable if it does not begin with a "/" or a "\".  (For my system, TERMCAP=
>C:\MISC\TERMCAP.)  Here is a simple patch to make it accept all values of
>TERMCAP:
>[....]

I discovered a simple way to eliminate the TERMCAP environment variable.  All 
you have to do is create a subdirectory called ETC under the root directory 
and put the TERMCAP file in it.  Once you run Nethack v2.3e, it will find 
the TERMCAP file even if the environment variable is not set.  The program 
seems default to the Unix file directory convention.  This slightly reduces 
the time required to start up Nethack.


-Ed L