[net.games.rogue] What is "He's dead, Jim."?

bryan@utep-vaxa.UUCP (Bryan R. Davies) (03/27/85)

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Perchance, could someone tell me what the cryptic line:

"He's dead, Jim."

means?  One of our users was trying  to  zap  rogue's  score
file  out  of  existence, and succeeded (somehow).  The file
was still there, but I had to re-install it to get rogue  to
start  recording  scores  again.   However, while it was not
working, this message would be displayed  occasionally  when
someone  did  a  "rogue -s".  Also, if someone could tell me
why the person was able to make the file die even though  he
did not have write permission to it, I would be grateful.

Thanks in advance.

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	Bryan R. Davies		ihnp4!ut-sally!utep!bryan

play@mcvax.UUCP (Andries Brouwer) (03/28/85)

In article <132@utep-vaxa.UUCP> bryan@utep-vaxa.UUCP (Bryan R. Davies) writes:
> ...  Also, if someone could tell me
> why the person was able to make the file die even though  he
> did not have write permission to it, I would be grateful.

On our installation (BSD4.2, rogue 5.3. (mctesq was here)) it has repeatedly
happened that when somebody started playing, saved and restored and then
made the top ten list, the top ten list was garbled and had to be removed.
I don't have sources so cannot shed any further light on this bug.

rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) (04/01/85)

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"He's dead, Jim," is an immortal quotation of Dr. McCoy to Captain James T. Kirk, Commander of the Starship Enterprise.  A real expert could tell you why it wassaid and when, but I am not a real expert, only an enthusiast.

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