GNU Screen on MacOS 10.8 says "Be careful! New screen tonight" when it starts up screen sometimes. Any ideas what causes this, or is there a way to disable it and/or change the text to something else?
Screen version 4.00.03 (FAU) 23-Oct-06
OS X version 10.8.2
You are using screen with the option #NETHACK defined.
Nethack is a old text based game with many surprising twists, including dependency on the phase of the moon. If it is full moon the in game were-monsters are stronger.
Screen has an option to translate some of the normal messages into 'nethack-ish' messages. One of the Nethack messages is "Be careful, new moon today". The screen version of that is "Be careful! New screen tonight.")
A list of the messages from the screen source:
#ifdef NETHACK
static struct nlstrans nethacktrans[] = {
{"Cannot lock terminal - fork failed",
"Cannot fork terminal - lock failed"},
{"Got only %d bytes from %s",
"You choke on your food: %d bytes from %s"},
{"Copy mode - Column %d Line %d(+%d) (%d,%d)",
"Welcome to hacker's treasure zoo - Column %d Line %d(+%d) (%d,%d)"},
{"First mark set - Column %d Line %d",
"You drop a magic marker - Column %d Line %d"},
{"Copy mode aborted",
"You escaped the dungeon."},
{"Filter removed.",
"You have a sad feeling for a moment..."},
{"Window %d (%s) killed.",
"You destroy poor window %d (%s)."},
{"Window %d (%s) is now being monitored for all activity.",
"You feel like someone is watching you..."},
{"Window %d (%s) is no longer being monitored for activity.",
"You no longer sense the watcher's presence."},
{"empty buffer",
"Nothing happens."},
{"switched to audible bell.",
"Suddenly you can't see your bell!"},
{"switched to visual bell.",
"Your bell is no longer invisible."},
{"The window is now being monitored for %d sec. silence.",
"You feel like someone is waiting for %d sec. silence..."},
{"The window is no longer being monitored for silence.",
"You no longer sense the watcher's silence."},
{"No other window.",
"You cannot escape from window %d!"},
{"Logfile \"%s\" closed.",
"You put away your scroll of logging named \"%s\"." },
{"Error opening logfile \"%s\"",
"You don't seem to have a scroll of logging named \"%s\"."},
{"Creating logfile \"%s\".",
"You start writing on your scroll of logging named \"%s\"."},
{"Appending to logfile \"%s\".",
"You add to your scroll of logging named \"%s\"."},
{"Detach aborted.",
"The blast of disintegration whizzes by you!"},
{"Empty register.",
"Nothing happens."},
{"[ Passwords don't match - checking turned off ]",
"[ Passwords don't match - your armor crumbles away ]"},
{"Aborted because of window size change.",
"KAABLAMM!!! You triggered a land mine!"},
{"Out of memory.",
"Who was that Maude person anyway?"},
{"getpwuid() can't identify your account!",
"An alarm sounds through the dungeon...\nThe Keystone Kops are after you!"},
{"Must be connected to a terminal.",
"You must play from a terminal."},
{"No Sockets found in %s.\n",
"This room is empty (%s).\n"},
{"New screen...",
"Be careful! New screen tonight."},
{"Child has been stopped, restarting.",
"You regain consciousness."},
{"There are screens on:",
"Your inventory:"},
{"There is a screen on:",
"Your inventory:"},
{"There are several screens on:",
"Prove thyself worthy or perish:"},
{"There is a suitable screen on:",
"You see here a good looking screen:"},
{"There are several suitable screens on:",
"You may wish for a screen, what do you want?"},
{"%d socket%s wiped out.",
"You hear %d distant explosion%s."},
{"Remove dead screens with 'screen -wipe'.",
"The dead screen%s touch%s you. Try 'screen -wipe'."},
{"Illegal reattach attempt from terminal %s.",
"'%s' tries to touch your session, but fails."},
{"Could not write %s",
"%s is too hard to dig in"},
If you wish to get the normal messages then uncomment #define NETHACK from your profile or recompile screen without support for it.
