Hi,
At 09:54 11/08/99 +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 04:24:55AM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote:
>> Perhaps this should be a PR...
>>
>> Seeing as how we are recently being amused by fortune(6) quotes, I thought
>> I'd mention an acronymn that hasn't been used recently: POLA
>>
>> Can anyone explain why every time I upgrade world, my hard earned 'record'
>> file whilst playing hack(6) gets overwritten by /dev/null, and also all
>> the user 'bones' and 'save' files rm'd?
>
>Blimey! I wondered where all my rogue(6) scores were going. This is an
>excellent idea. I'll submit a PR, with your diffs and some for rogue.
I think you'll find that hack(6) itself silently removes save and bones
files that are older than the binary, a precaution because it relies on
data layout in the file. This is a PITA but nontrivial to fix.
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