why /etc/nethack/nethackrc.console didn't install

2011-07-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
I still don't know, but did find something out that was useful. The nethack-console.sh script looks for that file as well as a user's .nethackrc file. So I made me a short .nethackrc file and eliminated that warning when the game starts up. Probably the nethack configuration pac

Re: why didn't /etc/nethack/nethackrc.console install?

2011-07-23 Thread lee
Jude DaShiell writes: > Script started on Sat 23 Jul 2011 07:11:38 AM EDT > [...] see http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- http://www.asciiribbon.org/ http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

why didn't /etc/nethack/nethackrc.console install?

2011-07-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
Script started on Sat 23 Jul 2011 07:11:38 AM EDT jude@md:~$ ls /etc/net-al /etc/nethack/ total 9 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 23 07:09 . drwxr-xr-x 120 root root 7168 Jul 23 07:09 .. -rw--- 1 root root 33 Jul 23 07:09

Re: NetHack meets the 21st century

2006-08-27 Thread Miles Bader
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried nethack-gnome but did not like it. Too GUI-fied. The Win32 > version is also like that. Yeah same here. I think a "graphical" version of nethack _could_ be very cool, but it would have to be carefully and tastefully

Re: NetHack meets the 21st century (was Re: Email programs that work.)

2006-08-27 Thread Ron Johnson
wrote: >>>>>> Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>>>>> s. keeling wrote: > [snip] >>>> live. But I digress. I have to get back to my nethack >>>> session (another non-GUI leftover from the 90s). > nethack-x11 is "pane-based&q

Re: NetHack meets the 21st century (was Re: Email programs that work.)

2006-08-27 Thread Andreas Rippl
teve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>>> s. keeling wrote: > [snip] > > live. But I digress. I have to get back to my nethack session > > (another non-GUI leftover from the 90s). > > nethack-x11 is "pane-based", a perfect mixture of graphics and >

Re: NetHack meets the 21st century (was Re: Email programs that work.)

2006-08-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> nethack-x11 is "pane-based", a perfect mixture of graphics and >> keyboard controls. > > Nah, that's Angband. :) Maybe Angband does what nethack-x11 does, but

Re: NetHack meets the 21st century (was Re: Email programs that work.)

2006-08-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > nethack-x11 is "pane-based", a perfect mixture of graphics and > keyboard controls. Nah, that's Angband. :) -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream? PGP Key: 8B6E99C5

NetHack meets the 21st century (was Re: Email programs that work.)

2006-08-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Rippl wrote: > On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 01:50:09PM -0500, Mumia W. wrote: >> On 08/26/2006 11:10 AM, s. keeling wrote: >>> Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>> s. keeling wrote: [snip] > live. But I di

Re: problem with Nethack 3.4.0

2002-04-28 Thread Peter De Wachter
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 03:16:17PM -0400, Glenn Becker wrote: > When I start Nethack in console, the basic movement commands h j k and > l, etc, are being interpreted as the corresponding '#' commands ... e.g. > #h #j #k #l. So that when I try to move using the 'j' com

problem with Nethack 3.4.0

2002-04-28 Thread Glenn Becker
Hi - I wasn't sure whether it would be better to send this to nethack.org or to the Debian list ... anyhoo ... When I start Nethack in console, the basic movement commands h j k and l, etc, are being interpreted as the corresponding '#' commands ... e.g. #h #j #k #l. So that whe

Re: NETHACK

2001-06-09 Thread Jeremiah H. Savage
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 10:30:59PM -0400, dude wrote: > > I have noticed that NETHACK SEEMS to lock when i hit crtl-S > I dont see this listed anywhere. Anyone know. If it's anything like rxvt, hitting ctrl-q will unfreeze it... a wild guess -- Jeremiah

Re: NETHACK

2001-06-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 10:30:59PM -0400, dude wrote: > > I have noticed that NETHACK SEEMS to lock when i hit crtl-S > I dont see this listed anywhere. Anyone know. That makes sense as c-s is the stop key. Hit c-q to continue. This is how it works at most terminals :) -- Nath

NETHACK

2001-06-09 Thread dude
I have noticed that NETHACK SEEMS to lock when i hit crtl-S I dont see this listed anywhere. Anyone know. please email me if you know. thanks!

nethack-spoilers upgrade?

2000-04-22 Thread Mats Ström
Anyone know if there are any plans of upgrading the nethack-spoilers package? Right now they are only containing about 1/4 of the information they used to... //Odie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mats Mikael Ström 046 - 391226Magistratsvägen 55, F:209 ICQ: 17314512 226 44

Re: latest nethack packaged yet?

1999-12-16 Thread Kerne Fahey
Still, questions about Peter Ross' hands, which might one day hold *my* Myst book, are unsettling to me: > Does anyone know if nethack 3.3.0 has been packaged yet. Apt-getting it start downloading http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main nethack 3.3.0-3 , so, yes, it has. Served with

latest nethack packaged yet?

1999-12-16 Thread Peter Ross
Does anyone know if nethack 3.3.0 has been packaged yet. Pete

Re: nethack

1998-12-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Two things: : : 1) /usr/lib/games/nethack/nethack should be chmod-ed 2755, owned by root : and belonging to group games. I suspect this is where your problem lies. : /usr/games/nethack is just a wrapper shell script to execute the nethack

Re: nethack

1998-12-11 Thread surak
Two things: 1) /usr/lib/games/nethack/nethack should be chmod-ed 2755, owned by root and belonging to group games. I suspect this is where your problem lies. /usr/games/nethack is just a wrapper shell script to execute the nethack binary. 2) Are you running hamm (Debian 2.0) or slink (frozen

Re: nethack

1998-12-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Frank Barknecht wrote: : Nathan E Norman hat gesagt: // Nathan E Norman wrote: : : > : > What's the secret to get nethack to work? I have it sgid games, but it : > says it can't open /var/lib/games/nethack/perm ... : : Could be that nethack is

Re: nethack

1998-12-10 Thread Frank Barknecht
Nathan E Norman hat gesagt: // Nathan E Norman wrote: > > What's the secret to get nethack to work? I have it sgid games, but it > says it can't open /var/lib/games/nethack/perm ... Could be that nethack is not allowd to write in the directory /var/lib/games/nethack/ C

nethack

1998-12-07 Thread Josh Beavers
It will work as root definately, the permissions odndon't look right.

nethack

1998-12-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
What's the secret to get nethack to work? I have it sgid games, but it says it can't open /var/lib/games/nethack/perm ... brahe:/var/lib/games/nethack $ ll `which nethack` -rwxr-sr-x 1 root games1137 Oct 29 1997 /usr/games/nethack* brahe:/var/lib/games/nethack $ ll tota

nethack has wrong scoreboard file

1998-06-05 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
also, after reinstall I get: eyryttyp1:hawk>nethack Warning: cannot write scoreboard file /usr/lib/games/nethack//var/lib/games/net hack/record how/where do I tell it that it's just /var;/obgames/nethack/record? -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer.

RE: Nethack save files: was: angband save problems

1998-05-28 Thread Bob McGowan
I have not been following the beginning of this discussion thread, so this may have been said before. The reference to nethack caught my eye, since I had tried it out and had save problems, too. What I found is that both the save file and its parent directory must have write permission in order

Re: Nethack save files: was: angband save problems

1998-05-28 Thread Ed Cogburn
Britton Leo Kerin wrote: > > Nethack seems to have the same sort of problem. Is this perhaps a > systematic error in debian's arrangement for games and other things > that have to save data of this sort, or is there something we're > missing? I seem to remember a bi

Nethack save files: was: angband save problems

1998-05-28 Thread Britton Leo Kerin
Nethack seems to have the same sort of problem. Is this perhaps a systematic error in debian's arrangement for games and other things that have to save data of this sort, or is there something we're missing? I seem to remember a big argument about where to keep certain kinds of '

Re: ppp, nethack problems in hamm

1998-05-08 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, 7 May 1998, Britton wrote: > > Two small bugs I have noticed in hamm: > > pon command only seems to work for root now, not even users who are in > dialout group. Is there some other group they need to be members of now? Pass.. I use bo.. > nethack doesn't star

ppp, nethack problems in hamm

1998-05-07 Thread Britton
Two small bugs I have noticed in hamm: pon command only seems to work for root now, not even users who are in dialout group. Is there some other group they need to be members of now? nethack doesn't start up, complaining about read or write permissions on critical files. anyone els

Re: group permission & nethack

1997-07-19 Thread Ed Donovan
Hi - >>>>> "Rick" == Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rick> I"m trying to run nethack. however, i get repsonses to hte Rick> effect of Rick> No write permission to lock /var/lib/games/nethack/perm! Rick> checking th

group permission & nethack

1997-07-18 Thread Rick Hawkins
I know i've solved this problem before, but . . . I"m trying to run nethack. however, i get repsonses to hte effect of No write permission to lock /var/lib/games/nethack/perm! checking the permissions, 0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root games 0 May 27 02:02 logfile 0 -rw-

nethack lock file

1997-06-17 Thread Stefan Baums
Hi all, After installing Debian 1.3.0 (from scratch): $ nethack NetHack, Copyright 1985-1996 By Stichting Mathematisch Centrum and M. Stephenson. See license for details. No write permission to lock /var/lib/games/nethack/perm

Re: Broken nethack?

1997-06-06 Thread Joey Hess
Scott K. Ellis: > It appears that that was a wierd glitch in the upgrade, purging and > re-installing nethack fixed that for me when I encountered it. I think I've found the cause of the problem. It only happens if you upgrade nethack. Looking at the nethack postinst: chown root.gam

Re: Broken nethack?

1997-06-06 Thread Randy Edwards
> This was a problem with an earlier version, but was fixed (I thought). > I don't remember which files had wrong permissions, but here > are the perms on the relevant files in /var/lib/games/nethack: > drwxrwxr-x 3 root games1024 Jun 4 11:05 /var/lib/games/nethac

Re: Broken nethack?

1997-06-06 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Randy Edwards wrote: >I updated to 1.3 last weekend and just recently ran NetHack. NetHack > -- which ran great before -- now gives a permission error of "No write > permission to lock /var/lib/games/nethack/perm!"

Re: Broken nethack?

1997-06-06 Thread sacampbe
>I updated to 1.3 last weekend and just recently ran NetHack. NetHack > -- which ran great before -- now gives a permission error of "No write > permission to lock /var/lib/games/nethack/perm!" This was a problem with an earlier version, but was fixed (I thought). I d

Broken nethack?

1997-06-05 Thread Randy Edwards
I updated to 1.3 last weekend and just recently ran NetHack. NetHack -- which ran great before -- now gives a permission error of "No write permission to lock /var/lib/games/nethack/perm!" Has anyone else gotten this or is this unique to me? What, no Nethack?! Now this is

Re: critical :) nethack question

1996-06-17 Thread Kevin M Bealer
On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Kevin M Bealer wrote: > > > A good place to discuss this (or anything really) is debian-talk... That's > > what it is for... (anything which is not debian only but is debianated ;) > > > So, how do we subscribe to this list Kevin? >

Re: critical :) nethack question

1996-06-16 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Kevin M Bealer wrote: > A good place to discuss this (or anything really) is debian-talk... That's > what it is for... (anything which is not debian only but is debianated ;) > So, how do we subscribe to this list Kevin? Dwarf

Re: critical :) nethack question

1996-06-16 Thread Kevin M Bealer
On Sat, 15 Jun 1996, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > On Sat, 15 Jun 1996, Rick Hawkins wrote: > > > Is there a way to open the chests other than kicking them? would this > > stop the potions from shattering? > > This is the wrong forum, but you can use a skeleton key or credit card. > (clip) > >

Re: critical :) nethack question

1996-06-15 Thread Amos Shapira
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) wrote: |I work for two years to build the system and this is what people use it |for :-) Forgot why UNIX was invented in the first place? :) --Amos --Amos Shapira| "Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory,

Re: critical :) nethack question

1996-06-15 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, 15 Jun 1996, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > This is the wrong forum, but you can use a skeleton key or credit card. > > There are many references for this game on the net such as the nethack > home page: http://www.win.tue.nl/games/roguelike/nethack/. One thing > wort

Re: critical :) nethack question

1996-06-15 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Sat, 15 Jun 1996, Rick Hawkins wrote: > Is there a way to open the chests other than kicking them? would this > stop the potions from shattering? This is the wrong forum, but you can use a skeleton key or credit card. There are many references for this game on the net such as the n

Re: critical :) nethack question

1996-06-15 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: > I work for two years to build the system and this is what people use it > for :-) Who do you work for :> Anyway, what else would you do with a computer :> :> -- Rob

Re: critical :) nethack question

1996-06-15 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > this may seem silly, but i haven't had a working nethack since law > school . . . > Is there a way to open the chests other than kicking them? would this > stop the potions from shattering? > if i recompile, can i add monste

critical :) nethack question

1996-06-15 Thread Rick Hawkins
this may seem silly, but i haven't had a working nethack since law school . . . Is there a way to open the chests other than kicking them? would this stop the potions from shattering? if i recompile, can i add monsters? or is there already a graduate students version out there with ass