Subject: Bug#3271: new nethack screws up on linux console

From: [email-masked] (Mark W. Eichin)
Date: 11 Jun 1996 03:55:01 -0400

Package: nethack
Version: 3.1.3-3

Package: ncurses3.0
Version: 1.9.9e-1

If I recall the annoucement, nethack was rebuilt in a different form
(TERMINFO defined, or something like that?) so that the colors were
right.  Well, this had other side-effects -- for example, it
occasionally dumps garbage on the screen. For example, note that
5050505050 in the following, and the )5@ (which should be @f#, a ^r
refreshes the screen to show me, the cat, and open tunnel...)

This is running on a 1.2.13 kernel, but the terminal emulation code
(1) has not changed much in a long time (2) worked fine under nethack
3.1.3-2. If you have trouble reproducing it let me know (this showed
up in the first couple of minutes of play. Good thing the other users
here haven't noticed -- they'd be miffed :-)

You hear a door open.  You are almost hit by a crude dagger!

                                #
                            #)5@##########
                                  #5050505050.-
                                       |......|
                                       |......+
                                       |......| #       #            ---------
                                       ........####-----.-           +.......|
                                       --------   #......|           |..<....|
                                                  #|.....|         ##-.......|
                                                  #|......         # |.......|
                                                  #|.....|       ### ---------
                                                  #-------       #
                                                  ################

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