HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: agrimm@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Snarf)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: THE ONLY USELESS ITEM IN THE GAME
Keywords: Useless Mail
Date: 6 Apr 92 20:15:17 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines

In article <1992Apr6.141749.24219@sfn.ORG> cliff@sfn.ORG (R. Cliff Young) writes:
>In article <13808@star.cs.vu.nl> lbkruij@cs.vu.nl (Kruijswijk LB) writes:
>>
>>Also scroll of mails are very usefull to read your mail. If you have no fancy
>>window-system with automatic mail notifiers and you are waiting for mail, then
>>you can play nethack in the meanwhile.
>
>This brings up an amusing question--how many people out there *do* use
>Nethack as their MUA (Mail User Agent--at least for *reading* mail)?
>
>Actually, I only play Nethack on my DOS (yes, yes, I know; please
>spare me your groans) machine, so I haven't had any experience with
>scrolls of mail.  (I am awfully tempted to install it on my Unix
>machine, though of course I have no justification for it and would
>really miss the color.  Uh huh.)
>
>Imagine: a system on which Nethack is your only available MUA--and the
>only way you could send mail out is if you had a blank scroll, a magic
>marker, and a Scroll or Spell of Mail Daemon Summoning! . . .
>
>	Johnson!  Quit quaffing fountains and get that mail off to the
>	New York office PRONTO!  What's the matter, you can't find any
>	blank scrolls!  Sheesh, Johnson, we're not paying you to play
>	around!  MOVE IT!
>
>Egad, the horror of it all.
>
>>Lucas B. Kruijswijk					lbkruij@cs.vu.nl
>
>-- 
>--/\/-- R. Cliff Young, SysAdmin, SFN -- cliff@sfn.ORG

Not really possible, because NetHack is merely given the pathname of whatever
mailreader the administrator wants it to use.  Unless it's a question of file
protection...eek!

But I like the way you're thinking :)
-- 
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"You die, the girl dies, EVERYBODY dies."	 |   Jump off a cliff, 20,000
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Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: dcb@wdl1.wdl.loral.com (David C Blume)
Subject: Re: THE ONLY USELESS ITEM IN THE GAME
Keywords: Useless Mail
Organization: Loral Western Development Labs
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 17:36:27 GMT

abe@oak.math.ucla.edu (Clifford B. Abe) writes:
>Nothing in the dungeon is totally useless to the hacker with the knowledge
>of how to use it.
>
>On the other hand, my nomination for most useless item is a figurine of a 
>yellow light.

OK.  What does the hacker do with the chain?  Throwing the iron ball
doesn't count, either.  That's using both.  What can you do with the
chain alone?

--David
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From: young@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Shin Young)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: nethack at tarkas.tamu.edu
Date: 13 Apr 92 15:49:20 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


is tarkas.tamu.edu slow?
it takes almost a second for each move and i was wondering
if anyone else has the same problem (if problem it is)


young
young@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: act31797@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (The Procrastinator  P1000)
Subject: Re: down to level 50 ...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 01:13:45 GMT

tvasi@shakti.bio.uci.edu (Taha K.Vasi.) writes:
>bonnie@cco.caltech.edu (Bonnie Jean Wallace) writes:
>>tvasi@shakti.bio.uci.edu (Taha K.Vasi.) writes:
>>>I managed to get to the castle level, and conquer it. Now I need to go down
>>>to level 50 and work my way up. My problem is that I don't have a scroll of
>>>teleportation. And the level teleporters don't seem to be working for me. 
>>
>>>I wonder why? I even removed my magic-prot cloak...I still keep getting 
>>>a "wrenching sensation". I am a little tired of waiting for creatures and 
>
>Am wearing the following:
>
>	1. blessed +3 gray dragon scale mail
>	2. blessed +1 small shield
>	3. blessed +1 water walking boots
>	4. +3 orcish helm
>	5. blessed +2 riding gloves
>
Minor spoiler:

(Hey, better safe than sorry!)

The gray dragon scale mail you are wearing also imparts magic resistance.
Take it off too and you should be able to teleport fine using the traps.
--
Andrew Trapp       atrapp@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
dreamer@uiuc.edu   act31797@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

"He who restricts another's right to self-defense is accomplice to any crime
committed because of the lack of self defense." 
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: dcb@wdl1.wdl.loral.com (David C Blume)
Subject: LS C precompile problem...
Organization: Loral Western Development Labs
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 18:02:52 GMT

This is in Lightspeed C 4.0 for the Macintosh computer...
Hmm.  I've encountered an odd problem.  I've added a new Bitfield to the
obj structure in obj.h,

	Bitfield(notcursed,1); /* dcb */

and I referenced it in dogmove.c file, 

	obj->notcursed = 1;

Then I re-precompiled pre_hack and pre_config to reflect the change.
Now, if I use the standard *not* precompiled hack.h and config.h, the
program compiles fine.  However, if I use the precompile hack.h (doesn't matter
which config.h I use),  I get "unknown struct/union member 'notcursed'."

Why doesn't using the pre-compiled headers work now?  I'd like to use them.

--David
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From: eexmsj@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (M.S.Jones)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Nethack in Win3.0 Enhanced mode
Date: 15 Apr 92 09:09:00 GMT
Organization: Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham

Sorry about the follow up bit but I can't find the original message!
I have been running nethack 3.0 under windows in enhanced mode and have not
had any problems with it not finding the overlays. The properties for the icon
are just
PROG NAME nethack.pif
STARTUP DIR c:\games\nethack

and then I have the PIF setup accordingly and all runs ok. Including NH in a
nice small window or full screen.
I think the above is correct, I certainly don't have it my AUTOEXEC path or
have a batch file.
I've also designed a little icon if anyone is interested. Mail me if so, if it
is popular I can post it. If lots of people want it and say its crap I won't!!

Martin S.Jones
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: bonnie@cco.caltech.edu (Bonnie Jean Wallace)
Subject: Re: I don't believe it!
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 07:48:36 GMT

tlg@uknet.ac.uk (Tim.Goodwin) writes:

>Pharmaceutic% the Valkyrie just found a wand of wishing on level 1.  Five
>wishes later, she was one of the best kitted out characters I've ever had.

>By level 3, she was dipping her (rust proofed) long sword.  She
>unleashes a water demon.  No problem: with Ac -8 he can do little
>damage, and with her speed boots, Pharmaceutic can easily escape.

>So the demon calls on Yeenoghu.  Even with grey dragon scale mail, and
>an amulet of reflection, she stands no chance.  Almost before I realize
>what's going on, it's all over.

>Tim.

Tragic indeed.  Even more so in knowing that one ring could have
spared the heartache...

-Bonnie
  bonnie@cco.caltech.edu

Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: dsbarr@modula.cs.psu.edu (Dave Barr)
Subject: Re: NetHack with Windows 3.0 in 386/Enhanced mode
Reply-To: dsbarr@cs.psu.edu
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 22:52:58 GMT

In article <k=yjmbc@lynx.unm.edu> jfreter@triton.unm.edu (The Myth) writes:
>In article <06Az02jV10SK01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> jdg00@amail.amdahl.com (Josh Grosse) writes:
>>phth@cc.newcastle.edu.au writes:
>>
>>>Windows 3.0 uses a one-line command for running applications, meaning that
>>>the default directory will *not* be the one containing the nethack overlay
>>>files. The simplest workaround is to write a small batch file something like
>>>
>>>CD \GAMES\NETHACK
>>>NETHACK
>>>
>>>call it NH.BAT and run it when you want to play the game. (To avoid problems
>>>don't call the batch file NETHACK.BAT!). I haven't tried this out but am
>>>fairly confident it will work.

Why not call it nethack.bat?  You're not being creative.

nethack.bat:
cd c:\games\nethack
nethack.exe

>>
>>Tony, I've tried this, and it doesn't work for me.  Thanks anyway.
>>-- 
>
>The best thing to do (that I do, games are important you know) is to edit
>the path statement in your autoexec.bat file to include your nethack directory
>and the problem will disappear. I use
>
>path c:\dos;c:\nethack;c:\windows;c:\bin
>
>and I can run it from windows or from any directory on the disk.

Sure, if you that's all you do.  If you have a real system with lots
of programs, this philosophy quickly gets evil.  DOS limits the length
of the PATH variable, and quite a few things break if you have one
that is too long.  Leave the PATH alone and use a .bat file.
I never change my path when I install new programs.  (Of course I
use a real command interpreter, 4DOS, which gives me aliases)  If
you're using Windows, why not use a .pif file?  Or aren't there
hackers playing nethack anymore?

--Dave
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Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: aranta@milton.u.washington.edu (Aaron Ranta)
Subject: Re: Still trying NH3 in Windows 386 enh mode
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 15:51:49 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.114902.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au> phth@cc.newcastle.edu.au writes:
>
>I am running a 33MHz 486 with AMI bios and 8Mb of RAM. TSRs and drivers are all
>very standard, ie ANSI.SYS, microsoft MOUSE, SMARTDRV and that's about it.
>Any suggestions/ideas/abuse/solutions?????
>

Try disabling the SMARTDRV and see if it makes any difference ( not the
best long term solution, but it make make a difference )

AR

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From: cmj1@jaguar.uofs.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: Save problem on MS-DOS hack
Date: 16 Apr 92 00:34:33 GMT
Organization: University of Scranton

In article <1992Apr14.201125.11289@unlinfo.unl.edu>, ksoutor@unlinfo.unl.edu (kevin soutor) writes:
> I am having a problem saving my Nethack character.  I am 
> running the game on a 640K Generic PC.  The game will 
> indicate that the character has been saved but on the 
> subsequent boot off of the hard drive the program refuses to
> recognize my character's name.  Then Nethack starts 
> normally, preceeded by the cryptic runes "Saved game out of 
> date".  Has anyone had a similar problem?  What is the fix? 

This sounds like you don't set your clock.  Remember, if you play for two
hours, the time is noe 2 am (If you don't set your clock) on 1-1-80.  If you
save then reboot the computer, The time is 12am 1-1-80 and the game is rightly
confused about how the HELL you're continuing a game that DOESN'T (shouldn't)
exsist yet.  So, set your clock correctly every time before playing. :)

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From: koerse@fwi.uva.nl (Niels Koerse (I88))
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Converting Altars??
Summary: How to convert altars
Keywords: hack nethack altars
Date: 15 Apr 92 08:56:23 GMT
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam

Hi all hackers,

I have a question, I have read a few times that people convert an altar,
but they a failed to mention how to do it.
So could someone tell me this. 

e-mail prefered


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From: root@rnivh.rni.sub.org (Torsten Leibold)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack,de.rec.games
Subject: Re: HELP: Stuck in castle - No way out !
Date: 5 Apr 92 15:11:16 GMT
Organization: Rhein-Neckar-Informationsdienst Viernheim

root@rnivh.rni.sub.org (Torsten Leibold) writes:

>I'm stuck in the castle (level 27).
>I went in through the front door and slashed everything except the
>[...]

I'd like to thank all those people out there who responded to my
problem !!
I received so many mails that I think it's better to post my regards
(BTW int. mail is expensive to me).

Again, thank you all, although I had to realize that I have no change
to finish the game (no ring of teleport control or wand/scroll of teleport).

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From: rob@wzv.win.tue.nl (Rob J. Nauta)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: blessed useless stuff
Date: 10 Apr 92 10:16:22 GMT
Organization: Sex, UNIX & Rock 'n Roll

In article <1992Apr9.181031.18734@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> kavuri@mixer.ecn.purdue.edu (Surya N Kavuri ) writes:
>
> blessed potion of sickness
>                   confusion
>                   paralysis

useful, for example to throw at a monster. Can also be made into water,
and you can dip darts and arrors into a potion of sickness, to
create poison darts and arrows.
> What do I do with these ?
>
>  Does it matter if my rings are blessed ?

Not really, but if a lich touches something, it's always nice if
it goes from blessed to uncursed, better than from uncursed to
cursed.
>  If my weapon is blessed ?

Very useful, especially to hit undead creature (zombies, vampires,
demons, ghosts). Especially ghosts are almost impossible to hit
with a normal uncursed weapon.
>  Armor is blessed ?

> Surya Kavuri
> (FIAT LUX)

Rob
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From: kaoru@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Kaoru MAEDA)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: How do you kill liches?
Date: 8 Apr 92 11:16:16 GMT
Reply-To: kaoru@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Organization: Dept. of Information Science, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan.
    03:32:58 JST
X-Bytes: 452

In article <YzJABLOW.92Apr7143258@enterprise.itd.nrl.navy.mil>
	jablow@enterprise.itd.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Jablow) writes:

 >What should he do about liches in the future?

My sole solution is to genocide.
I do not go down into castle before genociding liches.
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 Kaoru Maeda		 kaoru@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
 Dept. of Inf. Sci., Fac. of Sci., Univ. of Tokyo
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From: ksoutor@unlinfo.unl.edu (kevin soutor)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Need Information
Date: 7 Apr 92 19:05:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: unlinfo.1992Apr7.190512.15068
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Hullo, Hullo!  What's all this then?  I am new on the net 
and am looking for information on NetHack: what it is, how 
to play, and where to get it.  I would appreciate any 
replies to my e-mail box.  Thank you so much.

ksoutor@unlinfo.unl.edu
From: kavuri@lips.ecn.purdue.edu (Surya N Kavuri )
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Exit ?? on level zero ??
Date: 17 Apr 92 03:26:36 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network


  All I see in level zero is a teleport trap that I am not able
  to use.  The only thing with magic resistance was my cloak 
   which I removed and succesfully teleported across levels. 
   Why am I not able to use this level trap in Level 0 ?
   I have acquired the amulet of Yendor. COuld this be the 
   problem ?  There is no exit on this level. The game has been 
   infinetely creating monsters I have been killing them.  
   Once I prayed to the God and he suggested something like:
   "Learn to play the right tune to go to castle .. or something
    to that order. Is there one more castle that I need to face ?
   When will the game end ? 

   I did not paralyze the Wizard, and every now and then he keeps 
   coming back.  


  Surya Kavuri

  (FIAT LUX)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: melmer@wheaton.wheaton.edu (Marc Elmer)
Subject: Polymorphed pets
Organization: Wheaton College
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 20:17:46 GMT

	Ok, here's a problem I encountered the other day.  Maybe you people can
help me out in case it happens again.  I was running along, minding my own
business, with my faithful dog at my side, when suddenly WHAM!  He hits a
polymorph trap and becomes a unicorn.  Not bad, considering I wasn't to far
into the game at that point.  There was only one problem.  He wouldn't eat any
of the normal food that all pets eat.  Corpses?  Nah.  I even think I threw
him a tripe ration and he wouldn't eat it.  The result?  He died.  What do you
feed these things?  Gems?  Also, are there any other monsters that don't eat
normal pet food?  Thanks.

						       The White Ninja
							
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: silly@molest.ugcs.caltech.edu (Brad Threatt)
Subject: Big spoiler
Summary: Big spoiler
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 17:56:15 GMT

Ok.  Spoilers ahead

Here's a way to get an arbitrary number of spellbooks without too much manual
labor.  You want to know?

Really?

Are you sure?

Ok.

For this dangerous manuver, you will need:
a) gloves
b) a cockatrice corpse
c) lots of bags of tricks
d) a wand of polymorph

Ok.  Now pick a single square in a hallway, and stand on that square.  Don't
move.  The hallway should be straight, and preferably, no rooms should be
nearby.  There should be no exposed squares not in the hallway (ie, you need
a solid line of hallyway surrounded by walls on both sides).  Now wield the
cockatrice and start applying those bags of tricks.  Boom.  Statues.  But
because you're not moving (you're NOT moving, right?), the statues are all
getting formed on two squares.  Ok.  Keep applying bags until your corpse is
gone or all the bags are empty.  Now, polymorph both piles of statues (one
shot will do) and break open the statues.  There will be LOTS of spellbooks
when you're done.  Be sure to use <cntrl-a> to continue breaking statues after
you do the first one.  Now!  Wasn't that easy?  No dragging statues around.
Wow.

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Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: quaalude@netcom.com (George Mealer)
Subject: Re: Catalogue of scrolls, etc.
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 23:31:10 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 


<identified stuff deleted>

Nice work...unfortunately, nethack randomizes those...they'll all be different
the next time you play.  :/

--
George Mealer      quaalude@netcom.com

"Only by attempting the absurd can you achieve the impossible."

Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: jdg00@ccc.amdahl.com (Josh Grosse)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: I've isolated my 386/Enhanced mode problem!
Summary: Found the bug, have a circumvention, no solution (yet)
Date: 16 Apr 92 15:07:57 GMT
Reply-To: jdg00@amail.amdahl.com (Josh Grosse)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In my MS-DOS 5 CONFIG.SYS I've got two records that appear to be the cause
of the problem:

          DOS=HIGH,UMB
          DEVICEHIGH=C:\.....

I load a device driver that can run above the 640K line.

If I drop this driver back below the line by changing these lines to:

          DOS=HIGH
          DEVICE=C:\.....

My problem goes away (once I remove RAWIO, of course).  I've been
working with Mike Gallop (mikey@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca) on this problem,
and perhaps with this new insight he can figure out what the root cause
is.
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From: angus@hardy.u.washington.edu (Angus the Demonchild)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: A few more of them questions
Keywords: Lowest level, Magic resistance, and the Real Amulet
Date: 14 Apr 92 22:55:56 GMT
Organization: oh, be serious...


In article <1992Apr14.175033.13773@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> 
kavuri@lips2.ecn.purdue.edu (Surya N Kavuri ) writes:
>
>  (Q1) Somebody suggested that the lowest level is 50. 
>       Someone else claims it could be 99 !!.  How
>       far down should I teleport ?

	The first person is correct.  It is impossible (or at least unadvis-
able) to teleport down further than level 50.  Caveat:  I haven't actually
tested this, but the proof is easy enough.

>  (Q2) Liches do not seem as difficult to kill.  For 
>       some reason they are not able to takeaway my 
>       strength.  Did I gain some intrinsic ? 

	Assuming you're not just lucky, you have undoubtedly gained magic 
resistance, either by wearing a cloak of magic resistance or gray dragon scale
mail.  (IMHO, gray dragon scale mail is the best body armor in the game.)

>  (Q3) I already acquired 4 amulets of Yendor in four
>      different levels.  But there is no sight of the
>      wizard.  Is he hiding in the mazes ? I hate to 
>      search all the routes in the mazes.  I assumed
>      the lowest level is 50.  Could he be below that ?

	Don't waste your energy carrying those amulets.  They are all cheap 
plastic imitations.  Only the Wizard carries the True Amulet.  As I have stated
above, the Wizard must be somewhere between you and level 50 (inclusive).

>  Surya Kavuri

--angus@hardy.u.washington.edu
From: kaoru@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Kaoru MAEDA)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: liches
Date: 16 Apr 92 07:20:35 GMT
Reply-To: kaoru@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Distribution: rec
Organization: Dept. of Information Science, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan.
X-Bytes: 923

In article <199215.787.6158@dosgate>
	john.russell@canrem.com (john russell) writes:

 >I've had one death due to liches, but I can't understand how they could
 >be a serious threat to a good character.

Because strong magic users (including Titans, Liches,
Golden Nagas, and the Wizard of Yendor) can randomly
curse items in your pack.

	The Demilich points at you, then curses.

If you had your groves cursed, you can't put on/off
rings.  If your uncorn horn is cursed, you shouldn't
apply it.  If your uncursed luckstone gets cursed, ...
Any magic protection items are powerless against curses.

Spending a blessed genocide scroll on liches (and on
golden nagas) is an easier way than carefully fighting
against them, isn't it?
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 Kaoru Maeda		 kaoru@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
 Dept. of Inf. Sci., Fac. of Sci., Univ. of Tokyo
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