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From: poffen@molehill (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: nethack
Keywords: it stinks
Message-ID: <1990Jan5.181923.16327@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 5 Jan 90 18:19:23 GMT
References: <192@inesc.UUCP>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger ATE, San Jose, CA
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In article <192@inesc.UUCP> ajr@inesc.UUCP (Julio Raposo) writes:
>
>	While still waiting for the rest of PC-WRITE and RATAPL, I received
>	nethack and uudecoded it. After several hours on that job and
>	reading the text files in the package, I tried to run it. The only
>	message I could get was:
>
>		- Not enough memory to run.
>
>	I don't know what Raoul is doing but I am very unhappy about his
>	last postings.
>

if you read the README file that comes with it, you will find that it
states QUITE CLEARLY that it is a definite memory hog. You must strip almost
everything out of your system (tsr's, etc) and get at least 540K free before it
will run.

Once I do this (I have a batch file that copies stripped versions of config.sys
and autoexec.bat with no tsr's and drivers, then does a warm boot to get ready
to play, then another batch file to switch me back), it works fine.



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