I've forgotten who pointed this out recently, but the hero was having
wisdom exercized (if true rumor chosen) or abused (for false one) whenever
level creation made a random floor engraving which used a rumor for its text.
To fix the gibberish rumor observed by at least a couple of players on
Windows (where if rumors.tru had <cr><lf> line ends and DLB was defined,
makedefs built a file that caused nethack to end up in the wrong place when
it reached EOF and tried to jump back to the first false rumor), change
the way that makedefs builds the rumors file. It now will collect more
information about the true and false rumors. Instead of one hex value on
the second line, there are nine values (three groups of three).
1,2,3;4,5,6;7,8,9
1 = number of true rumors; not previously collected and not currently used
2 = size in bytes for all true rumors (in decimal, as is #1)
3 = offset to first true rumor (in hexadecimal; not previously collected)
4,5,6 = same as 1,2,3 but for the false rumors section
7,8 = always 0 (imaginary third section has no entries, no size)
9 = offset to end-of-file (could be used for sanity checks; currently isn't)
Adding #2 with #3 yields #6; adding #5 with #6 yields #9. The old format's
lone entry was the same as the new format's #6. #2, #3, and #5 are values
which nethack was previously calculating on the fly after opening the file.
This also extends rumor_check() a little bit (displays the last rumor
for both sections in addition to the first), but I think it can probably
now be demoted to ``#if 0'' and removed from the extended commands list.
Provide a command to easily verify that the rumor true/false
boundary offsets are correct for the rumors file.
If the boundary is pointing mid-line, the rumor at the boundary
won't decrypt properly.
Pat Rankin wrote:
> collect them all into some new struct and
> save that separately rather than jamming more non-option stuff
> into struct flags.
This patch:
- collects all context/tracking related fields from flags
into a new structure called "context."
It also adds the following to the new structure:
- stethoscope turn support
- victual support
- tin support
over the place.
Often they would use
"%ld zorkmid%s", amt, plur(amt)
but not consistently, so some of the hard-coded usage
could result in "1 zorkmids"
This adds the function
currency(long)
to return the name of the currency, either plural
or singular depending on the argument passed to it.
That eliminates the need for the extra %s in the
format string and the use of the plur() macro.
