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- From: snelling@bnr.ca (Peter Snelling)
- Subject: Re: - in name??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.153458.13763@bmers95.bnr.ca>
- Sender: usenet@bmers95.bnr.ca
- Reply-To: snelling@bnr.ca (Peter Snelling)
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
- References: <1992Nov18.005122.1408@netcom.com> <1992Nov18.202346.13104@netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:34:58 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- In article <1992Nov18.202346.13104@netcom.com>, ianb@netcom.com (Ian Barkley) writes:
- >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?
- >
-
- It's actually really simple. Nethack interprets the character
- following the final '-' as your class. So, if you were a wizard,
- "nethack -u Sermil-ish-w" would work.
-
- >>Thanks,
- >>-Ian
- >>P.S. please respond by e-mail, as I don't read this group.
-
- Don't have e-mail. Maybe some kind soul will pass this on to you.
-
- --
- Peter Snelling
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