From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3 i686) Description of problem: If you attempt to save a nethack game and the recover the saved game, the game will print version mismatch and create a new game. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.start nethack 2.Save a game with the capital S command 3.start nethack again 4.nethack will complain of version mismatch of the old save file, and start a new game. Actual Results: Save file ignored, new game started. Expected Results: Old game should be restored. Additional info: I edited the patch file, and changed the use of bzip2 to use gzip, and removed the special options passed to the compresser, rebuilt nethack and it worked correctly.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 20454 ***