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Re: (*spoiler*) HUP and impending Doom

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From: Henry Chai
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1985 14:09
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In article <280@cmu-cs-gandalf.ARPA> travis@cmu-cs-gandalf.ARPA (Ward Travis) writes:
>                                          the HUP save looks pretty tricky.
>Don't get all excited next time you get the cockatrice-body-touches-you-and-
>you-wretch-out-to-the-max --More-- line shows up, `cuz it's tricky. To the
>spoiler who first posted about it, congrats, you've got a neat setup
>out there ...

How about turning off the terminal?  I tried it once when I was down to 
2 or 3 hp and I was hitting an Orc.  I saw :"The orc hits --More--"
so I turned off the terminal.  Then I played again and found that the game
was saved and I was still alive.
But then again this could be machine/site dependent....
-- 
Henry Chai 
Faculty of Library and Information Science, U of Toronto
{watmath,ihnp4,allegra}!utzoo!utflis!chai        
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Subject: Re: (*spoiler*) HUP and impending Doom
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