From: stimpy+@cmu.edu (Rick)
Newsgroups: alt.games.xtrek
Subject: Re: CANT GO TO REC>GAMES>XTREK
Date: 6 Nov 92 23:43:05 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

ftp to gs69.sp.cs.cmu.edu and read all the help files in
the netrek directory. here is a copy of the README:


		       NETREK INFORMATION ARCHIVE

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Subject: README (index and information)
From: jch@cs.cmu.edu (Jonathan Hardwick)

Maintained by jch@cs.cmu.edu on gs69.sp.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.206.167), and
mirrored by (at least) ftp.iastate.edu and ftp.coe.montana.edu.

This is an archive for information of interest to the Netrek community.  The
original source was the andrew.games.xtrek bboard at CMU; later items came
from the alt.games.xtrek newsgroup, and now the rec.games.netrek newsgroup.

It is available on the WAIS system:
(:source 
   :version  3 
   :ip-address "128.2.206.11"
   :ip-name "gourd.srv.cs.cmu.edu"
   :tcp-port 6000
   :database-name "netrek-ftp"
   :cost 0.00 
   :cost-unit :free 
   :maintainer "spot@cs.cmu.edu"
)

It is also available via AFS in /afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/jch/netrek; as an added
incentive, the text files on AFS are not compressed.  There is an informal
competition to see who has AFS access over the furthest physical distance.
The current record-holder is Kristian Ejvind, in Stockholm, Sweden.

If you have neither AFS, WAIS nor FTP access, you can get the files by email
using the FTP-to-email gateway at ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com.  Ask me for a help
sheet if you don't know how.

Complete beginners should start with "netrek-faq", "server-list", and
"ftp-list", and then read "beginners", "opening-screen", and maybe
"help-sheet".  This is more than enough to get you playing, and occupies less
than 30k compressed.

FTP sites with Netrek source and binaries are listed in "ftp-list"; this site
currently contains the source for the Bronco server, beef borg, and the
original ck_players utility, all in the "code" subdirectory.  I no longer
carry Andy McFadden's excellent collection of toolbox utilities, because he
was updating them too often :-)

The files are (in the top-level directory):

ChangeLog	  : Update history of the files
README		  : This file
art-of-war.Z	  : The classic essay on war by Sun Tzu
beginners.Z	  : Red Shirt's advice to beginners
bot-busting.Z	  : How to kill robots
client-patches.Z  : Correcting various infelicities in the standard client
clients.Z	  : Aka cyborgs -- what they are, where you can get them
definitions.Z	  : The meanings of various game terms
dogfighting.Z	  : Lance puts it all into one easy-to-read file
enl.Z		  : The European Netrek League and mailing list
frequent-suggestions: Commonly-proposed changes to Netrek, and their faults
ftp-list.Z	  : Current FTP site list from rec.games.netrek
game-facts.Z	  : An analysis of the rules and parameters of the game
help-sheet.Z	  : A one-page summary of the game commands
hints.Z		  : Huge collection of random game hints
hockey.Z	  : How to play Netrek hockey
humor.Z  	  : Murphy goes to war, top-10 lists, deteriorata, and more
ibl.Z		  : Borg and bot counterpart of the INL
inl.Z		  : The Intercollegiate Netrek League; teams, rules, results
inl-spring92.Z	  : Spring '92 INL
inl-summer92.Z	  : Summer '92 INL
maintainers.Z	  : Who is responsible for this outrage?
nbr.Z		  : Current proposals for the Next Big Release of the client
net-behaviour.Z	  : Find out what Netrek does to networks, and vice versa
netrek-faq.Z	  : Current FAQ list from rec.games.netrek
ogging.Z	  : What it is, how to do it, how to avoid it
opening-screen.Z  : A three-page summary of game commands and strategy
personae.Z	  : Does Netrek bring out the schizophrenic in you?
planet-taking.Z	  : Hints from Grey Elf, a master of the art
playing-as.Z	  : How to play an Assault Ship, by Todd Williamson and Bert E.
playing-bb.Z	  : How to play a Battleship, by Tom Holub
playing-ca.Z	  : How to play a Cruiser, by Andrew Markiel
playing-dd.Z	  : How to play a Destroyer, by Robert Hill
playing-dd.alt.Z  : Alternative guide to playing a Destroyer
playing-sb.Z	  : How to play a Starbase, by Craig Boas
playing-sc.Z	  : How to play a Scout, by Bert Enderton
proverbs.Z	  : Nuggets of Netrek wisdom, by Bert Enderton
rsa.Z		  : The new RSA-based blessing method, and how it works.
server-list.Z     : Current server list from rec.games.netrek
server-patches.Z  : What to apply if your server doesn't work
server-secrets.Z  : How to bring up a Netrek server
ship-facts.Z	  : Speeds, torpedo capabilities, explosion distances, etc.
ship-opinions.Z	  : One person's opinions of the different ships
starbases.Z	  : How to play them and how NOT to play them
udp.Z		  : Information on Andy McFadden's UDP client
xtrek-vs-netrek.Z : A comparison of the two games, plus where to get xtrek
xtrekrc-hints.Z	  : How to customize your display and keyboard mappings
xtrekrc-sample.Z  : Two sample .xtrekrc files

In the "code" subdirectory I've stuck the following big chunks of code
and/or text:

6x10italic.tar.Z  : X11 italic (actually, underlined) 6x10 font in pcf and bdf
beef.readme.Z	  : Leonard Dicken's information borg
beef.howto.Z
beef.shar.Z
beef.bitmaps.shar.Z
bitmaps.Iggy.h	  : Bitmaps to give Iggy his own ship type
bitmaps.Iggy.README
bronco.dist.tar.Z : Netrek server source code "Bronco Netrek release 2/20/92"
bronco.dist2.tar.Z: additional patches
bronco.readme.Z	  : additional information on modified server utilities
bronco.gcc.patch.Z: Richard Caley's diffs allowing compilation under GCC
ck_players.readme : Program to list the players on a server, by Ivan Vazquez
ck_players.tar.Z
recorder-patch	  : Julian Ho's patch to let a client record a game
ship-table.dvi.Z  : Table of all the ship statistics; useful for quantitative
ship-table.ps.Z   :   comparison, and fits on one printed page!
xtrekguide.dvi.Z  : Player's guide for Xtrek, the granddaddy of Netrek;
xtrekguide.ps.Z   :   Included for historical interest, and to stop people
xtrekguide.tex.Z  :   hosing the Japanese site which is its other source...

Note that all files except README and ChangeLog are compressed.  Use 8-bit FTP
(type the FTP command "binary" before get'ing the files) and then use the Unix
"uncompress" command, which will convert (for example) netrek-FAQ.Z into
netrek-FAQ.

Please send all flames, attributions and corrections to jch@cs.cmu.edu.  And
I'll see you in the galaxy sometime.

			     Spaceman Spiff

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End of README
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--Rick
"Bronco Netrek Server. You will never find a more wretched hive of
scum and villainy." -- Admiral Kenobi (aka Terence Chang)
Organization: Freshman, CIT general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA