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- From: ianb@netcom.com (Ian Barkley)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
- Subject: Re: - in name??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.202346.13104@netcom.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 20:23:46 GMT
- Article-I.D.: netcom.1992Nov18.202346.13104
- References: <1992Nov18.005122.1408@netcom.com>
- Organization: The Order of Ancient Mysteries
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- In article <1992Nov18.005122.1408@netcom.com> ianb@netcom.com (Ian Barkley) writes:
- >During a recent game, my character Sermil 'became a new man'. When asked for
- >a new name, I didn't have any wonderful ideas, so I typed 'Sermil-ish', and
- >then later saved. Now, how do I get back into the game?
- >"nethack -u Sermil-ish" says "unknown role I" and gives the start-up screen.
- >Ditto on setting name in $NETHACKOPTIONS, or even $USER. This is a
- >multi-user system, so I can't rename the data file, either.
- >I didn't see this in the FAQ. Any hints?
-
- Note for everyone, since I've been getting a lot of mail with this:
- nethack -u 'Sermil-ish' does NOT work. It shouldn't - this is a nethack
- problem, not a shell one, and the same arguments will get passed to nethack
- regardless of the quotes. I also tried nethack -u \'Sermil-ish\'; no, that
- doesn't work either. Perhaps the programmers out there should program in a
- way around this?
-
- >Thanks,
- >-Ian
- >P.S. please respond by e-mail, as I don't read this group.
-
- -Ian
- ianb@netcom.netcom.com
-