Using Recover on Mac OSX - help me!
JRBrown
with the blessed +6 Grayswandir (she had a small run-in with a gremlin
on Jubilex's level that promptly turned into a big green mess, and
required her to retreat to her stash to genocide the little
exponentially-replicating barstids). Then the game crashed.
My computer has done this before, so I have a backup savefile, but
it's a few thousand turns and five excruciatingly dull maze levels old
and I'd rather have the gamefile back. I was using Nethack Carbon (on
Mac OSX); Nethack Carbon does not seem to have a recover function I
stole the Recover module out of the Nethack QT package, but have had
no luck getting it to work. It seems to see the files (and as far as I
can tell all the level files are present and accounted for), but it
just says "cannot create savefile <gamename>" and then quits. (I have
several crashed games cluttering up my harddrive, and this is the best
it will do for any of them.) Anyone have any idea what's going wrong,
and how I can get it to go right?
Also, has anyone ever made a GUI for recover for Mac? Command lines
are just so 1980's...
APLer
news:5df10ed4-bae1-4bc6...@s15g2000yqs.googlegroups.com:
No one's even made it for linux or Microsoft land. I *has* been made
automatic in some nethacks.
Did yu compile the source yourself or did you download the binary? It
sounds like reading the man page for recover would be a valid step. It's
either called recover.6 or recover.txt. It's also in the source code if
you don't have it. The recover executable *is* in the directory with the
maps, nethack itself and the bones files (along with the lock files)
right?
if you have your game lock files called alock.1, alock.2 and so on, you
would recover by typing
./recover -d<path of current nethack playground> alock
The "playground" is the full directory name mentioned in the above
paragraph.
The ./ is the unix method to specify the recover executable *in* that
directory. I have no idea if it's the same procedure in OS/x. Along those
lines you might want to make sure that there is no other copies of recover
elsewhere.
Pat Rankin
> [...] I was using Nethack Carbon (on
> Mac OSX); Nethack Carbon does not seem to have a recover function I
> stole the Recover module out of the Nethack QT package, but have had
> no luck getting it to work. It seems to see the files (and as far as I
> can tell all the level files are present and accounted for), but it
> just says "cannot create savefile <gamename>" and then quits. (I have
> several crashed games cluttering up my harddrive, and this is the best
> it will do for any of them.) Anyone have any idea what's going wrong,
> and how I can get it to go right?
Two of the three binary packages for Mac OSX available at
www.nethack.org neglected to include recover. The Qt package has
it, and that one with also work for tty binary, but it won't work
for the Carbon binary. You're out of luck unless you can build
the Carbon version of nethack yourself, and then build recover
for it with that same configuration.
You could get a step further with Qt's recover by creating a
save sub-folder; running that recover will make a file there.
Then you'd need to move the save file to nethack's directory and
change the name to be prefixed by "save:", since that's what the
Carbon binary expects. But attempting to play using the same
character name results in a new game, with the recovered save
file being silently deleted. Evidently the file contents are
incompatible. That's a little surprising even though Qt's recover
was built with a different compiler than the Carbon nethack, since
recover does almost no interpretation of the level file contents
when copying a byte at a time to concatenate them into a save file.
Anyway, that's as far as I got when I went through this exercise
six months ago....
JRBrown
> Two of the three binary packages for Mac OSX available at
> www.nethack.org neglected to include recover. The Qt package has
> it, and that one with also work for tty binary, but it won't work
> for the Carbon binary. You're out of luck unless you can build
> the Carbon version of nethack yourself, and then build recover
> for it with that same configuration.
>
> You could get a step further with Qt's recover by creating a
> save sub-folder; running that recover will make a file there.
> Then you'd need to move the save file to nethack's directory and
> change the name to be prefixed by "save:", since that's what the
> Carbon binary expects. But attempting to play using the same
> character name results in a new game, with the recovered save
> file being silently deleted. Evidently the file contents are
> incompatible. That's a little surprising even though Qt's recover
> was built with a different compiler than the Carbon nethack, since
> recover does almost no interpretation of the level file contents
> when copying a byte at a time to concatenate them into a save file.
> Anyway, that's as far as I got when I went through this exercise
> six months ago....
Aww, f**k. I thought it might me something like that. But thanks for
letting me know.
Off to see if I can figure out how to compile on OSX...
APLer
news:3a1abdc6-28af-4b8c...@a31g2000yqn.googlegroups.com:
The nethack wiki has walk through docs on compiling nethack. I would
suggest copying over the lock files to somewhere *before* you do anything
else however.
http://nethack.wikia.com/wiki/Compiling
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