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From: coy@ssc-vax.UUCP (Stephen B Coy)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: nethack
Summary: RTFM!
Keywords: it stinks
Message-ID: <3104@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 90 00:30:26 GMT
References: <192@inesc.UUCP>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace & Electronics, Seattle WA
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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.
> 
> 					Antonio Julio Raposo

The text files included with nethack clearly state that the game is
huge and must be run on a minimum system to maximize the amount of
available memory.  Try creating a bootable floppy with everything
stripped out, ie no cache, no tsr's, nothing except ansi.sys.  This
should give you enough memory to get nethack to run on a 640k
system.  If you have a system with less than 640k you're SOL.
Bashing Rahul because you can't follow simple directions is no way
to gain sympathy.  Polite questions (and spelling his name right)
will get you a lot farther.

Stephen Coy
uw-beaver!ssc-vax!coy

ps  What part of the unpacking of nethack took you "several hours"?