On Thu, 28 May 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> M.C. Vernon wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 28 May 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > First, what does the program do when you try ^S? Does angband give
> > > a
> > > message?
> >
> > It hangs - the scroll lock light comes on, and won't go out again... :(
> >
> > This can only be rectified by hitting the scroll lock key, at which point
> > angband responds to any keystrokes you press between ^S and scroll lock,
> > and displays no hint of having `heard' the ^S
> >
> > Matthew
> >
>
>
> I know what the deal is. I just checked the deb package. ^S isn't
> being
> intercepted. There's a compile time option to disable ^S to prevent certain
> methods of cheating. The prepackaged deb was compiled with that option on.
> The deb package was apparently setup for a multi-user environment where all
> possible means of preventing cheating have been used so that you can be
> pretty confident that the high score list is not made up of cheaters. It
> also doesn't include the borg.
> If you want the ^S, the only way now is to compile angband for yourself.
Dang...
Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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