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

[jennyw]

Thanks!  I'd like to know how you found those messages! I did google 
searches and didn't come up with that.

I did, however, figure out the problem was screen just before I got your 
message. Earlier on IRC someone (I think Hamster) was talking about a 
program called strings that finds strings in a binary file.  Using this, I 
was able to determine that screen does, indeed, have some pretty creative 
messages!

Jen

On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 12:19:34PM +1000, Carlo Hamalainen wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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