Re: Spaces on input

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#504

From: ampe
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1985 09:30

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In article <275@tilt.FUN> kyrimis@tilt.FUN (Kriton Kyrimis) writes:

>The input routine in hack 1.0.2 does not seem to recognise spaces. ...
...
>	Kriton Kyrimis	(princeton!tilt!kyrimis)

The bug lies in the getlin() routine in hack.tty.c.  This file includes
ctype.h, which defines isprint().  On some machines, isprint() answers
false to spaces, thus the error.  A fix is to change line 127 of
hack.tty.c from:

		} else if(isprint(c)) {
to:
		} else if(isprint(c) || c == ' ') {

			--John Ampe
			    UCLA

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From: ampe@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: Spaces on input
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Date: Thu, 25-Apr-85 04:30:55 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 25 04:30:55 1985
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