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ptmkenny

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From: Tokyo

Registered: 2010-06-11

Posts: 14

Nethack NETHACKDIR variable in .nethackrc (SOLVED)

Greetings,

I use several different computers and they are all linked through Dropbox.  I thought it would be nice to use the same save data from Nethack on all the different computers, and I discovered that you can set the variable NETHACKDIR in .nethackrc to designate the directory of the save files.

Unfortunately, I created a .nethackrc in my home directory with the following line:
NETHACKDIR=/home/username/Dropbox/nethack

but when I execute Nethack I receive the following error: Bad option line: "NETHACKDIR=/home/username/Dropbox/nethack"

Any thoughts on how to get this to work?  I poked around Google but all I could find were examples of using .nethackrc to change colors.

Patrick

Last edited by ptmkenny (2010-08-19 00:49:53)

Cyrusm

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From: Bozeman, MT

Registered: 2007-11-15

Posts: 1,053

Re: Nethack NETHACKDIR variable in .nethackrc (SOLVED)

what happens when you try it with

nethack -d /home/username/Dropbox/nethack

? 
this should over ride the NETHACKDIR environment variable, might give some clues for troubleshooting.

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ptmkenny

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From: Tokyo

Registered: 2010-06-11

Posts: 14

Re: Nethack NETHACKDIR variable in .nethackrc (SOLVED)

That worked, so I just made a bash alias and decided to give up on the NETHACKDIR variable.

Thank you!