Difference between revisions of "Talk:How to apply the NetHack 1.4f patch"

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I don't quite understand why the article says to modify the files.  Couldn't they simply be run with bourne shell?  Or is there some subtlety I'm missing? --[[User:Elronnd|Elronnd]] ([[User talk:Elronnd|talk]]) 05:20, 9 April 2015 (UTC)Elronnd
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The uunet link seems to be down, but it appears that there's a (partial?) mirror of ftp.uu.net at [http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/usenet/ftp.uu.net/comp.sources.games http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/usenet/ftp.uu.net/comp.sources.games].  Editing accordingly. --[[User:Elronnd|Elronnd]] ([[User talk:Elronnd|talk]]) 05:10, 9 April 2015 (UTC)Elronnd
 
The uunet link seems to be down, but it appears that there's a (partial?) mirror of ftp.uu.net at [http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/usenet/ftp.uu.net/comp.sources.games http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/usenet/ftp.uu.net/comp.sources.games].  Editing accordingly. --[[User:Elronnd|Elronnd]] ([[User talk:Elronnd|talk]]) 05:10, 9 April 2015 (UTC)Elronnd
  

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I don't quite understand why the article says to modify the files. Couldn't they simply be run with bourne shell? Or is there some subtlety I'm missing? --Elronnd (talk) 05:20, 9 April 2015 (UTC)Elronnd

The uunet link seems to be down, but it appears that there's a (partial?) mirror of ftp.uu.net at http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/usenet/ftp.uu.net/comp.sources.games. Editing accordingly. --Elronnd (talk) 05:10, 9 April 2015 (UTC)Elronnd


It seems like the "stub" category doesn't really fit this page.

--Kdgarris 01:45, March 26, 2010 (UTC)

There's a stub template in the section "Editing the patch for a modern shell," requesting information on doing a necessary edit on editors other than vi. I suppose there ought to be a distinct stub-section template as there is on Wikipedia.--Ray Chason 20:08, March 27, 2010 (UTC)