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Windows: OPTION=name:player does not ask for a name #1614
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The set of names which lead to prompting "who are you?" is set in 'sysconf' via
the 'GENERICUSERS' entry.The Windows-specific sysconf.template seems to omit that for some reason.
If you add
GENERICUSERS=player
(to sysconf, not to the template unless you reinstall first) you should get the
result you want.The locations of NetHack system-wide shared files, including sysconf:
nethack --showpaths Variable playground locations: [...] [bonesdir ]="C:\ProgramData\NetHack\5.0\" [scoredir ]="C:\ProgramData\NetHack\5.0\" [lockdir ]="C:\ProgramData\NetHack\5.0\" [sysconfdir]="C:\ProgramData\NetHack\5.0\" NetHack's system configuration file (in sysconfdir): C:\ProgramData\NetHack\5.0\sysconf" The loadable symbols file (in sysconfdir): "C:\ProgramData\NetHack\5.0\symbols"
On the Windows build of NetHack, setting
OPTION=name:playersets the name to "player".On macOS/Linux, it instead forces NetHack to prompt for a name.
The behaviour should be consistent across platforms (i.e.
OPTION=name:playershould always prompt for a name).