Why all the gratuitous "to code multiplayer nethack is difficult, because..." sentences? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.148.103.224 (talk • contribs) 16 August 2006. An object is normally allocated to have extra space after the end of the struct. Using ONAME(thing) retrieves some text from this extra space. I think that ONAME probably contains the name left with the #name command (such as "cursed" or "REAL", if you ever have a "yellow potion named cursed" or an "Amulet of Yendor named REAL"), however I would have to examine do_name.c more carefully to learn the details. I find this approach difficult to understand.