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HarJIT at 17:30, 17 April 2015
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:You don't. the <tt>nhdat</tt> -file contains multiple data files, but it doesn't contain the plain text des-files, but binary lev-files compiled with lev_comp. --[[User:Paxed|paxed]] ([[User talk:Paxed|talk]]) 04:00, 10 April 2015 (UTC)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:You don't. the <tt>nhdat</tt> -file contains multiple data files, but it doesn't contain the plain text des-files, but binary lev-files compiled with lev_comp. --[[User:Paxed|paxed]] ([[User talk:Paxed|talk]]) 04:00, 10 April 2015 (UTC)</div></td></tr>
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HarJIT at 17:26, 17 April 2015
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A Person at 13:37, 11 April 2015
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Paxed: nhdat doesn't contain des-files
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<p>nhdat doesn't contain des-files</p>
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A Person: Help... I need help locating files...
2015-04-10T01:00:05Z
<p>Help... I need help locating files...</p>
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I am pretty new at looking at the code for NetHack, so I need some help. How do I access the dat file with all of the .des files in it? <br />
For background information, I have NetHack through apt-get install on a Linux system.<br />
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