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Fix some terribly depressing corruption during restore. In rogue5/state.c, rs_read_daemons() zeroes out the argument and delay if the daemon slot is empty. Unfortunately that code ended up on the wrong side of the brace that closes the for loop, so instead of running after each daemon, it got run once after the loop exited, when the index was of course out of bounds. This tended to manifest, when compiled with -O2, by overwriting hw and setting it to NULL. When inventory() next ran, hw would be passed to wgetch(), which returns ERR when it gets a NULL argument. This made md_readchar() think something was wrong and autosave the game. Upon investigation, rogue3 was found to commit the same mistake. rogue4 and srogue don't zero the data. arogue5 already does it properly. Someday I am going to run all this through Valgrind. Someday when I am a kinder person who will not be driven to invoke hordes of trolls and centaurs upon the original authors.
author John "Elwin" Edwards
date Wed, 08 Jan 2014 16:44:16 -0500
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		       Roguelike Gallery (rlgallery.org)

This is the source code for the Roguelike Gallery's version of Rogue V3.

History
Rogue 3 was released by Michael Toy, Ken Arnold, and Glenn Wichman, probably 
late in 1980.  It went through several minor updates.  The last, Rogue 3.6, 
was completed mid-June 1981.

The Roguelike Restoration Project (rogue.rogueforge.net) updated the game to 
work on modern systems.

The Roguelike Gallery's version has been slightly modified for compatibility 
with dgamelaunch and security for multiple players.

Installing
Rogue V3 now uses autotools.  Run 'autoreconf' and then './configure' to
configure for your system.  Once that's finished, compile by running make.  (I
haven't tested the Visual Studio project files on Windows, but they should
work.)

If you don't use any options with './configure', rogue3 will keep the high
score list in whatever directory you run it from.  If you just want to play 
the game yourself, this will work.

If you want multi-user play, use the '--enable-setgid' and '--enable-savedir'
options to 'configure'.  You will also likely want to use '--enable-scorefile' 
and '--enable-logfile' to set the locations of those files.  After compiling, 
run 'make install'.

There are other possible features, including wizard (debugging) mode.  To see
the full list, run './configure --help'.

Playing
For more details, see readme36.html (contains the man page) and rogue36.html 
(Michael Toy's "Guide to the Dungeons of Doom").

Contact
rlgallery.org admin: John "Elwin" Edwards <elwin@sdf.org>