Yet another new player

[Sordino]

Well, I have only just started playing roguelikes a few days ago. But I am doing fairly well in Angband now, first played nethack but I liked 'band variants more. Currently level 6 High-Elf warrior, only down to like dl8...found smeagol and kill him. Got a Cutlass Holy Avenger (1d7) (+12,+9) [+4] from him, currently my main weapon. This is my best game so far, I found smeagol on level 3 too. Is that unusual to find him that early into the dungeon?

[Mondkalb]

He sometimes even lurks around on level 1.
And steels all you money!
With see invisible from yoru high elf he might have been less annoying than usual. ^^

[Sordino]

He was fairly easy, the worst part was him poofing and having to find him again. That was rather obnoxious.

Also, could someone tell me how to export a character dump of one that is still alive?

[bonzo]

Try <Shift> + 'C' to get to the character screen, then 'F' to dump to a file.

[Poop Loops]

I'm playing on Ubuntu, and whenever I try that it says "Character dump failed!"

What made you pick a High Elf as a warrior? They have a penalty to STR. EDIT: Wait, nevermind. They're pretty much Dunadans but more stats.

[Bandobras]

I'm playing on Ubuntu, and whenever I try that it says "Character dump failed!"

Strange. What do the following commands say, when you just exit from your game?

pwd
which angband
ls -R ~/.angband

[Poop Loops]

I saved the game I was playing and clicked the X on the window, then typed this into the terminal I used to open the game into the first place:

tomek@tomek:~$ pwd
/home/tomek
tomek@tomek:~$ which angband
/usr/games/angband
tomek@tomek:~$ ls -R ~/.angband
/home/tomek/.angband:
Angband ZAngband

/home/tomek/.angband/Angband:
monster.txt Tomek lvl 17 D Tomek.prf Tomek.txt x11-settings.prf

/home/tomek/.angband/ZAngband:
tomek@tomek:~$

[Bandobras]

Oh, that one should have been

ls -Rl ~/.angband

But, isn't Tomek.txt your character dump?

[Poop Loops]

Yes, but when it prompts me to overwrite it for the new dump, it says the character dump failed. Do I need to make a new file for every dump I make? What if I just want to update my current dump?

[bonzo]

Sounds like a file/directory permissions issue...like it will let you write, but not delete the old file so that you can save a file of the same name. Did you check the directory/file permissions?

[Bandobras]

Sounds like a file/directory permissions issue...like it will let you write, but not delete the old file so that you can save a file of the same name. Did you check the directory/file permissions?

I guess he didn't. This is why I'm interested in:

ls -Rl ~/.angband

[Poop Loops]

tomek@tomek:~$ ls -Rl ~/.angband
/home/tomek/.angband:
total 8
drwx------ 2 tomek tomek 4096 2008-05-11 20:27 Angband
drwx------ 2 tomek tomek 4096 2008-05-03 13:52 ZAngband

/home/tomek/.angband/Angband:
total 244
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomek tomek 219836 2008-05-03 18:31 monster.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomek tomek 6119 2008-05-08 18:51 Tomek lvl 17 D
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomek tomek 550 2008-05-06 20:55 Tomek.prf
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomek tomek 4212 2008-05-11 20:27 Tomek.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomek tomek 149 2008-05-13 10:12 x11-settings.prf

/home/tomek/.angband/ZAngband:
total 0

I guess I should change them to be rw for all uses?

[bonzo]

I guess he didn't. This is why I'm interested in:

ls -Rl ~/.angband

Ah my bad...missed that.

...backing away slowly now.

[Bandobras]

As bonzo said, I guess the permissions are the problem. The following would probably do the trick, but it's a security risk (malicious hackers may be after your Angband savefiles!)

chmod -R a+Xwr ~/.angband

Hmm, perhaps we should change the group of the Angband directory to games and then do only

chmod -R g+Xwr ~/.angband

?
Or perhaps even the following would suffice without messing up with groups?

chmod -R a+Xr ~/.angband

[Poop Loops]

Still getting the error, even with the fist setting.