In article <1993Nov9.224301.1474@bhprtc.scpd.oz.au>,\
 stuartl@bhprtc.scpd.oz.au (Stuart Langley) writes...
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> I have downloaded version 3.10 from nic.funet.fi which
> has supposedly already been converted over for use
> straight from the box for linux.  [...]

     There's no such thing as nethack 3.10; if that's 3.1.0, then
throw it away and get 3.1.3, the current version.  If it's actually
3.0pl10, then throw it ever farther away. ;-)