jqw (06/04/82)
Though I believe Ken has changed Rogue so that food is dependent on
screen size, I still use this trick to make rogue easier. It makes rogue
think that your terminal has fewer lines than it really does, so no room
is more than 3 units higher. This makes dark rooms and searching walls much
easier. Those people who play on earlier versions of rogue than 5.2 may
want also to make the screen narrower (e.g. 64 columns).
Though I use it as an alias under csh, it can be done easily as a shell script.
alias rogue "(setenv TERMCAP foo:li#18:tc=${term}: ; set term = foo ; /usr/games/rogue52)"
(For 64 columns, insert "co#64:" before "li#18:")
P.S. I've won at 5.2!
-The Ghost who Walks
duke!unc!jqw