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Article #1369

Re: A bug?

#1369
From: Joe Buck
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1986 00:50
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In article <161@bucsb.UUCP> dino@bucsb.UUCP (T.H.) writes:
>I was playing 'hack' the other day when I was about to starve to death.
>I went into a shop and steped on a food ration.  I was too weak to 
>pick up the food ration so I ate it off the floor.  I went to the
>entrance of the shop and paid the shopkeeper but it said "You don't owe
><shop keepers name> anything."  I thought this was strange so I ate 
>another food ration off the floor and the same happened again.

That's in the newest version (1.0.3) as well.  Think of it as a feature.
You can eat things even when you can't pick them up; without this feature
it would be very difficult to eat dragon corpses.  It's something
the shopkeeper doesn't catch.  He also doesn't charge you for what the dog
eats.



-- 
- Joe Buck <ihnp4!pesnta!epimass!jbuck>
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From: jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: A bug?
Message-ID: <170@epimass.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 19:50:31 EST
Article-I.D.: epimass.170
Posted: Fri Mar  7 19:50:31 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 10-Mar-86 08:29:48 EST
References: <3259@sun.uucp> <158@nbs-amrf.UUCP> <775@im4u.UUCP> <2014@rayssd.UUCP> <2127@bbnccv.UUCP> <161@bucsb.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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Summary: No, a feature