notnotdnethack/doc/fixes34.2

$RCSfile: fixes34.2,v $ $Revision: 1.2.2.130 $ $Date: 2003/08/26 15:13:56 $

General Fixes and Modified Features
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avoid panic when secondary weapon is cursed while generating bones level
don't crash when applying a figurine, candle, or bell that gets used up
grammar bits
two invisible monsters hitting one another should not be visible
if only one monster in a monster-vs-monster fight is visible, show an I symbol
	for the other one whether it is an attacker or defender
display "It" and not "The invisible <pet>" when an invisible pet eats food.
include a hint about expected input when prompting for musical notes
don't report "program initialization failed" if a panic occurs after the
	game is over
include statue contents in end of game inventory disclosure
treat handlessness as a major problem when deciding prayer outcome
perform artifact touch checks when putting on accessories
missing noun in message when horns pierce through your helmet
don't use hcolor() for trapped chest gases when you aren't hallucinating
the age of a potion of oil from a bones file wasn't being handled correctly
putting gold in a container on the shop floor wasn't credited the way
	gold already in the container when dropped was credited
avoid integer division rounding error when calculating carrying capacity
don't lock/unlock a door while in a pit, to be consistent with door opening
infravision should not make invisible player "visible" (it doesn't for monsters)
Perseus statue should always be male
charge correctly when breaking multiple objects with the same zap, avoids
	a dopay: not to shopkeeper impossible
clean up funny lighting on the healer locate level
allow all tame monsters that eat to consider food thrown to them
the screen display wasn't always up to date after map topology changes
jumping over a sokobon pit would result in the player next to, not in, the pit
don't let arrow, rock or dart traps provide an infinite number of objects
make enhanced ammo harder to break to make lesser number last longer
dropping from height or throwing a normal container may damage contents
some Magicbane messages treated "erinys" as plural
initialize artifacts before processing $WIZKIT
clean up inconsistency between various places quaff is documented
is_damageable was using is_rottable incorrectly
charge for use of an unpaid tinning kit
avoid impossible when water freezes while hero is hiding under water
avoid impossible after eating the object the hero is hiding under
failed attempt to eat floor gold while polymorphed would lose the gold
running that stops for closed doors should stop at mimics mimicking closed doors
allow wishing for magenta potions (ignoring the rank name 'mage')
fix an uninitialized memory access in non-quick dolookup
fix were changing message that wasn't being displayed
immediate encumbrance feedback when removing gauntlets of power
make deliberately flying down the Castle's trap doors consistent with falling
give more explicit feedback for exploding bag of holding
help display for "list of game options" misformats runmode and scroll_amount
pit created by land mine explosion doesn't start out concealed
update map display sooner when pushed boulder triggers land mine explosion
prevent several QBUFSZ sized buffers from overflowing and triggering fatal 
	errors inside window port prompt routines
make sure that leashed monsters are released prior to shopkeeper inheriting
	dead character's inventory
attaching long named candle to long named candelabrum caused buffer overflow
when polymorhed, only hand/weapon attack on disenchanter should result in
	damage to weapon, gloves, etc.
killer should say "the" when choking on unique monster's corpse
allow applying polearm on monster you can see via infravision
killer reason shouldn't use "a" or "an" prefix for multiple projectiles
	scattered by land mine explosion
killer reason for named missile could end up with garbage instead of the name
make killer reason for various poisioning deaths be more consistent
poison missiles were unintentionally more likely to inflict "deadly poison"
	than in pre-3.4.1 releases
provide feedback when going invisible after eating a stalker
killer on tombstone had no prefix for starvation/exhaustion case
ensure proper message ordering for boulder trap messages
clean up data set by join_map that is overlaid by MAPs on special levels
clarify disclose option default in opthelp, and support "all" as old help said
add more calls to update_inventory as the inventory changes
don't charge for items picked up from monster's interior while swallowed
choking while eating non-food always called the food "quick snack"
short swords are not throwing weapons
several sit-in-trap cases were unreachable
curse candelabrum in bones, like other similar artifacts
detecting a trap in a chest while confused should not exercise wisdom
any golem statue hit with stone-to-flesh spell animates as flesh golem
correct invalid startup gender selection
can no longer untrap floor containers during unskilled riding
can no longer easily set land mines and bear traps during unskilled riding
refine cmdassist handling for armor vs accessories
prevent monsters from level teleporting out of the quest into the main dungeon
prevent monsters from level teleporting into the Sanctum prior to invocation
"m," command sequence would let you see all objects at a location even when 
	they included a cockatrice corpse which hero was unequipped to handle
use correct pronoun for unique monsters
hostile monsters who follow you between levels won't do so if they're fleeing
options for font_size for map, menu, message, status, and text all had the 
	same description of "the size of the map font" in options.c
when dismounting by choice and unimpaired, try not to land in a known trap
when jousting a pudding into a polymorh trap, it was possible to end up
	with two of the new type of monster
don't allow polymorphed player to web over the stairs
geographical shopkeeper updates
stethoscope use should be free the first time it's use per player move
travel command caches last position to make non-mouse less painful
update pit trapped time when polymorphing to or from a monster that passes_walls
show artifact hit message which affect the monster that swallowed the hero
revived pet corpse from bones file should not be loyal to current player
finding a statue trap you are about to dig should stop your occupation
try to keep saddle at the same location as the steed corpse
never display I symbol on the mounted hero/steed location
pit digging is no longer stopped by a sleeping monster next to you
ensure mksobj() always attaches timer to corpse, even if called with init FALSE
only charge for eating one stacked tin, not all at once
add flag to makemon() to allow monster to be created adjacent to the supplied 
	coordinates if there is already a monster at the target location
stone-to-flesh of spot with multiple statues can animate more than one
use of stethoscope now deliberately impacted when hero is engulfed by whirly 
	monster but fixed so it can sometimes work on your steed there too
typos fixed in data.base
add looting freehand() check to able_to_loot() to prevent opening container
	only to be told that you can't loot anything
Schroedinger's Cat could be placed at wrong location when its box is carried
travel while polymorphed into a grid bug should not move diagonally
refine cmdassist handling for grid bugs
when casting force bolt spell while engulfed go ahead and use the engulfers 
	name in the hit message rather than "it"
a fog cloud shouldn't pummel you with debris
do not let an attached iron ball drag the hero through a location that the hero
	could not move normally
hero's appearance should change immediately after mimicing completes
avoid some uses of "it" in killer messages
avoid "singular of null?" warning for info lookup of obscure user input
there was no check for iron bars in dokick() so it defaulted to "empty space"
if you couldn't see the rat created in a sink for some reason other than
	blindness, you would get "Eek there's it in the sink."
digging a pit while stuck in the floor should always free the player
quest guardians can no longer be created via stone-to-flesh on their statue
stone-to-flesh no longer silently ignored by a statue of a unique monster
wishing for quest guardian corpse now gives a generic corpse of the species
prevent quest guardians from other classes from talking to you as if they 
	were your quest guardian
wake up shopkeeper if a shop transaction is attempted while he's immobilized 
statues created from monsters remember more monster attributes


Platform- and/or Interface-Specific Fixes
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Gnome: compilation problems on Redhat 7.2 and 8.0
unix: Makefile.utl would put OBJDIR objects in the wrong directory
vms: create an empty paniclog file during playground installation
win32tty: add subkeyvalue option to alter key values; Finnish keyboard fix
win32tty: distinguish between black/gray/white (by Quietust)
win32gui: prevent male Valkyrie and other incorrect startup settings
win32gui: allow numeric quantity count on item selection during loot
win32: some code in files.c was incorrectly assuming that a file
	descriptor return value of 0 from open() was invalid but it 
	could be valid on win32gui where stdin, stdout, stderr aren't open;
	now it correctly checks for return value < 0 from open() 
tiles: high priest tile had a couple bad pixels
tiles: bad pixels in Croesus and Yeenoghu tiles
FreeBSD: incorrect srandom declaration
unix: don't autosave if hangup occurs after game is over
linux: add example use of nroff on recent Linux distros
linux: use random() by default instead of lrand48()
OpenBSD: time() prototype and correct default Mail program
Gnome: compilation problems on Solaris
unix: better error message for .nethackrc access problems
vms: during installation, warn if dlb file creation or non-dlb playground
	setup is missing expected data files


General New Features
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debug mode level teleport menu via '?'


Platform- and/or Interface-Specific New Features
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win32tty: keystroke handlers can be dynamically loaded to assist in resolving
	internationalization issues
win32tty: add Ray Chason's code for international keyboard handling
Solaris (and other SystemV variants): TIMED_DELAY support
X11: NetHack.ad is now installed and used w/o user intervention