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From: addison@pollux.usc.edu (Richard Addison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Quick and Easy Question. What GURUs start with 87?
Keywords: NETHACK, 3.0, PL7, GURU, 870000000...
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Date: 13 Mar 90 09:06:04 GMT
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In article <14545@s.ms.uky.edu> phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti) writes:
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>     Hi! I downloaded Nethack V3.0 PL7; it is being run by Angela on her
>Amiga (1 meg RAM, one floppy). It works fine except that each time she exits,
>she gets an 8700000... visit from the GURU. I've never gotten an 87000...
>before. Does anybody know what it means?
>
>                                                      - R'ykandar.
>-- 
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OK, let's see...

The first digit 8 means it is a Dead End alert (meaning you have to re-boot).

The remaining 7 digits...

AN_DOSLib      7000000
AN_StartMem    7010001  No memory at startup
AN_EndTask     7000002  EndTask didn't
AN_QPktFail    7000003  Qpkt failure
AN_AsyncPkt    7000004  Unexpected packet received
AN_FreeVec     7000005  Freevec failed
AN_DiskBlkSeq  7000006  Disk block sequence error
AN_BitMap      7000007  Bitmap corrupt
AN_KeyFree     7000008  Key already free
AN_BadChkSum   7000009  Invalid checksum
AN_DiskError   700000A  Disk Error
AN_KeyRange    700000B  Key out of range
AN_BadOverlay  700000C  Bad overlay

Now, since your friend is running NetHack V3.0 PL7 on a 1 meg RAM system,
what you see might be related to tight memory.  Could you email me a
description of how your friend is running NetHack?  In particular, what
is in the Startup-Sequence?  How much free memory is there before she
runs NetHack?  We (the friendly people who helped bring the Amiga port
of NetHack up-to-date) really do want to make NetHack work for as many
people as possible.

--Richard Addison
addison@pollux.usc.edu