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XRogue: fix some uses of entire structs instead of their members.
Some calls to runto() were given a pointer to the player struct instead
of to the player's coordinates. A call to death() was passed a pointer
to a monster instead of the monster's type number.
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11 <h1 align=center><b>A Guide to the Dungeons of Doom</b></h1> |
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13 <h2 align=center><i>Michael C. Toy<br> |
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14 Kenneth C. R. C. Arnold</i></h2> |
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18 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer |
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19 Science<br> |
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20 University of California<br> |
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21 Berkeley, California 94720</h3> |
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24 <h2 align=center><i>ABSTRACT</i></h2> |
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28 <p align="justify"><b><i><font size="2">Rogue</font></i></b><font size="2"> is a visual CRT based fantasy game which runs under the |
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29 UNIX† timesharing system. This paper describes how |
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30 to play rogue, and gives a few hints for those who might otherwise get |
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31 lost in the Dungeons of Doom. </font></p> |
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35 <h2 align="justify"><b>1. Introduction</b></h2> |
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