[Techtalk] Security question and dungeons (really weird message)

[Carlo Hamalainen]

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, jennyw wrote:
> "Suddenly the dungeon collapses. You die." or something a lot like it.  I
> don't know if it's a weird error message or if my machine has been

I think it's a weird error, and it's associated with the 'screen' program,
which you mentioned that you were using.

Here's one instance where somebody had the same error:
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-hurd/1999-March/002681.html

And a reasonably definitive answer on Usenet (sorry about the long URL):
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=20001017222351.A975%40tznet.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26q%3D%2522Suddenly%2Bthe%2Bdungeon%2Bcollapses!%2BYou%2Bdie%2522%2Bscreen

"The screen message you got is because the port compiles to use the
Nethack-style error messages. It can be configured not to if you look
through the config files."

So it seems to be the screen program barfing.

-- Carlo