kent@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Kent Paul Dolan) (06/01/88)
[Crossposted with followups directed to comp.sources.games.bugs.] In nethack 2.3 made with all features enabled, I encountered the following minor bug. I don't have convenient source access to try to run it down, so this is just a way to share the knowledge with the games many maintainers in hopes someone will bother to stomp this six legged intruder. First level, hallucinating, I found the indications of an access to a vault scribbled in the dust. I searched for the doorway, stepped into it, searched for the passageway, found "#", searched again from the doorway for the trap, found "^", and was told: You found a. This looks like the path was followed for a replacement string for the normal teleport trap string to show a hallucinating version, but the path was null, and/or no such string exists in the games internal database. Possible fixes are to add the missing string and make it accessible, or to repair the code for hallucinating to check that a replacement exists before trying to use it. My this game is fun! Tough, though. Kent, the man from xanth.