> When running the game "snake" (/usr/games/snake), it coredumps
> immediately on startup.  I traced it down to move.c line 646, which
> does a strlen(BS), where BS is NULL.  If I change this to

> 	if (BS != NULL)
> 		BSlength = strlen(BS);
> 	else
> 		BSlength = 0;

This is surely not the right fix.  If the terminal has neither :bc=:
nor :bs: (see above, where BS is set), then it can't backspace at all.
Snake is apparently not prepared to deal with terminals that simply
cannot backspace; your "fix" makes it use a zero-length string as the
backspace string, which naturally doesn't work right.

> This happens with both vt220 and vt100 termcaps;

Indeed, I find that the NetBSD termcap file spsecifies neither bc nor
bs for vt100 and vt220.  This is a serious bug in the termcap file;
both those terminals should have :bs:.

If you want to make it work, set BSlength to something really huge,
like 1000, in the BS==NULL case; then the code will think the BS string
is so expensive that it will always prefer to use cursor motion.

					der Mouse

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