banksie@ono.isor.vuw.ac.nz (Philip Banks) (01/23/91)
I dunno if it is just me or what but I downloaded all the nethack files and after an hour of mucking about converted them ready for decompression. They both decompressed nicely and I set them up as per the instructions in the readme file for a floppy drive. And what happens? I get an error talking about segmentation error and giving me a post mortem on the uncompress programme. Has anyone else had this problem? To be on the safe side I did decompress everything twice... *-----------------------------------------------------------------* @@@@@@/| | BANKSie! (aka Philip Banks) banksie@isor.vuw.ac.nz | @@@@@/#| | An Arc owner stuck in a non Arc spot. | @@@@/##| | Well you try drawing the Arc Symbol in Ascii 'Graphics'! | @@@/---| *-----------------------------------------------------------------* @@/ |
ecc_jim@ecc.tased.oz.au (01/23/91)
In article <1991Jan22.190404.9937@comp.vuw.ac.nz>, banksie@ono.isor.vuw.ac.nz (Philip Banks) > I dunno if it is just me or what but I downloaded all the nethack files > and after an hour of mucking about converted them ready for decompression. > They both decompressed nicely and I set them up as per the instructions > in the readme file for a floppy drive. And what happens? I get an error > talking about segmentation error and giving me a post mortem on the > uncompress programme. Has anyone else had this problem? To be on the > safe side I did decompress everything twice... Exactly the same thing happened to me except I configured it for the hard drive. Will someone shed some light on this. _______________________________________________________________________________ Jim Palfreyman Elizabeth Computer Centre ecc_jim@ecc.tased.oz.au Link Road phone: +61 02 496999 Claremont fax: +61 02 496969 TAS 7011 Australia PLEASE NOTE THAT UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, MY REPLY ADDRESS IS ecc_jim@ecc.tased.oz.au _______________________________________________________________________________ Imagine that Cray decides to make a personal computer. It has a 500 MIPS processor, 200Mb of RAM, 1500Mb of disk storage, a screen resolution of 4096 x 4096 pixels with 16777216 colours, relies entirely on voice recognition for input, fits in your shirt pocket and costs $300. What is the first question the computer community asks? "Is it PC compatible?"
bdb@cl.cam.ac.uk (Brian Brunswick) (01/23/91)
In article <1991Jan22.190404.9937@comp.vuw.ac.nz> banksie@ono.isor.vuw.ac.nz (Philip Banks) writes: > ..... > talking about segmentation error and giving me a post mortem on the > uncompress programme. Has anyone else had this problem? To be on the > safe side I did decompress everything twice... Yup, I had exactly the same thing. I also tried mixing with parts of the old nethack distribution - the problem seems to be with the nh_z data file rather than the unpacker, in the sense that the shipped one worked with the old nh_z. Brian.Brunswick@uk.ac.cam.cl Disclaimer. Short sig rules!
blekken@fwi.uva.nl (Erwin Blekkenhorst (I88)) (01/23/91)
banksie@ono.isor.vuw.ac.nz (Philip Banks) writes: > I dunno if it is just me or what but I downloaded all the nethack files > and after an hour of mucking about converted them ready for decompression. > They both decompressed nicely and I set them up as per the instructions > in the readme file for a floppy drive. And what happens? I get an error > talking about segmentation error and giving me a post mortem on the > uncompress programme. Has anyone else had this problem? To be on the > safe side I did decompress everything twice... Before tryin' to download Nethack, anyone should know that it only works on a 2 Meg machine. I found out too late... Erwin -- _____ ____ / /__) ---------------------------------------------------------------- /-- / \ Erwin Blekkenhorst /___ /___) blekken@gene.fwi.uva.nl
jim@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Jim Palfreyman) (01/24/91)
blekken@fwi.uva.nl (Erwin Blekkenhorst (I88)) writes: >banksie@ono.isor.vuw.ac.nz (Philip Banks) writes: >> I dunno if it is just me or what but I downloaded all the nethack files >> and after an hour of mucking about converted them ready for decompression. >> They both decompressed nicely and I set them up as per the instructions >> in the readme file for a floppy drive. And what happens? I get an error >> talking about segmentation error and giving me a post mortem on the >> uncompress programme. Has anyone else had this problem? To be on the >> safe side I did decompress everything twice... >Before tryin' to download Nethack, anyone should know that it only works on a >2 Meg machine. I found out too late... >Erwin Could someone then please tell me how to turn my 4 Meg machine into a 2 Meg one? ;-) Jim Palfreyman
cbuckley@vax1.tcd.ie (Highly Doped Emitter) (01/24/91)
banksie@ono.isor.vuw.ac.nz (Philip Banks) writes: > > [after uudecoding nethack and running ...] > I get an error talking about segmentation error and giving me a > post mortem on the uncompress programme. Has anyone else had > this problem? To be on the safe side I did decompress > everything twice... Hooray - it's not just me! I had an identical problem. The nh.arc file de-sparked all right, but nh_z (nh_z.dat in the file) seems to be corrupted in some way. Either : we had to do some extra translation/uncoding on the nh_z.dat file before using it as nh_z (and as far as I can tell, weren't told..) or : nh_z is corrupted in some way - maybe due to some PC's nasty habit of translating newlines into cr/lf sequences. It's not happening at my end because that's always the first thing I check for when something doesn't work. Any help, Huw? +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Colm Buckley. (Computer Science, Trinity College, Dublin) | | EMAIL : cbuckley@vax1.tcd.ie | +-+-------------------------------------------------------------------+-+ | "This isn't the first time you're going to meet this...." | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+