[comp.sources.bugs] YANB

knutson6@auscso.UUCP (John Knutson) (08/25/87)

I was playing nethack a few minutes ago in wizard mode and was fighting a
giant spider and noticed this:
The giant spider hits!  The scorpion's sting was poisoned!
Anyone got a fix?
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ssnyder@tybalt.caltech.edu (Scott S. Snyder) (08/26/87)

In article <203@auscso.UUCP> knutson6@auscso.UUCP (John Knutson) writes:
>The giant spider hits!  The scorpion's sting was poisoned!
>Anyone got a fix?

Try changing line 312 of mhitu.c from:

			poisoned("scorpion's sting",mdat->mname);

to:

#ifdef SPIDERS
			poisoned("spider's bite",mdat->mname);
#else
			poisoned("scorpion's sting",mdat->mname);
#endiul