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From: clemens fischer <ino-news@spotteswoode.dnsalias.org>
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Subject: Re: reviving games/freebsd-games
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> Jeremy Chadwick:

> I think the bottom line here is that until someone steps up and
> actually volunteers to fix the code, it will remain broken.  (I don't
> normally tote this attitude, but in this case it's applicable: this is
> a volunteer project! :-) )

That's why I want to try my skills on it.  I found the emails you cited,
but they didn't help much.

Gdb(1) is no mystery to me, and it told me where larn crashes.  Doing
"scrollname[i][0]=' '" with "char *scrollname[] = {"\0something",...}"
shouldn't cause a SIGSEGV as far as I know.


regards, clemens