dave@uwvax.ARPA (08/01/84)
Says Michael Mc Namara: It's like taking off your plate mail and walking into a party room full of trolls. Every time I see people flaming about the "Saved game bug", I lose all sympathy. Guys, under 4.2BSD, ^Y is a delayed suspend signal. ^Y also means UP LEFT to rogue. If you get a ^Y through the game to the shell, the game won't immediatly die, but will get a suspend signal as soon as the program looks for any signals from the OS. Rogue responds (incorrectly) to ^Y by saving the game. If you want avoid this problem, and haven't written a shell script like: Response: BULLSH*T!!! I have my delayed suspend character undefined (i.e. *NOT* CTRL/Y). I am *still* hit with the saved game bug. This normally happens after being hit by the nympho bug. -- Dave Cohrs @ wisconsin ...!{allegra,heurikon,ihnp4,seismo,ucbvax,uwm-evax}!uwvax!dave dave@wisc-rsch.arpa
brian@uwvax.ARPA (08/01/84)
RIGHT! It is your own fault if you get hit with the saved game bug... but not because there is a fix for the problem. At Wisconsin, several of us run rogue without dsusp defined and we STILL encounter the save bug. If you get hit with the bug, then it's your fault for saving the game in the first place. -- Brian Pinkerton @ wisconsin ...!{allegra,heurikon,ihnp4,seismo,sfwin,ucbvax,uwm-evax}!uwvax!brian brian@wisc-rsch.arpa
tims@mako.UUCP (Tim Stoehr) (08/03/84)
I can type the Control-Y key thousands of times with no effect generated. I have been hit by the save bug many times that I know I didn't touch that Control-Y. It's a bona-fide bug in rogue source that needs to be fixed.