From: an314@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Timothy Golobic)
Newsgroups: alt.beer,alt.party,rec.food.drink
Subject: Beer Games, help file
Date: 3 Oct 1992 19:02:35 GMT
Organization: Indiana University
Reply-To: tgolobic@indiana.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


this article is basically an FAQ about the beer games archives and the 
games themselves. Hopefully it will answer your questions sufficiently.

after someone who has seen the index of games, the most common question
is: "so how do i get them?"

Long ago, I used to process the requests via e-mail, manually. this became
quite tedious when i was getting 50+ requests per day. then two kind souls,
Brian Aslakson and Hannu Visti offered archive space for the games
to be accessed via anonymous FTP, and have since saved my A LOT of work.
as always, my deepest gratitude to them.

***** Unfortunately, we have lost the site the Brian took care of. *****
***** Please make note of it.					   *****

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when you drink, drink responsibilty, death from overconsumption is no way to 
die, especially when you have cold ones still in the fridge. We, as carriers 
of the beer games, do not encourage overconsumption. we are just providing 
entertainment for those of you who choose on your own to consume.
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so you say, "What is anonymous FTP?" FTP stands for File Transer Protocol.
In simplest terms, it means a the ability to log into a remote site and
retrieve files that are stored there. The anonymous part comes in because
anybody with internet access can get into these sites and get files,
certain restrictions of course.

accessing an FTP site is very similar but not the same as Telnetting into
a host. Assuming that your system has FTP available, i believe that most
internet sites with news do have FTP, more than likely all you need to type at 
your main prompt is: FTP. hopefully this will work. it may also be imbedded in 
menus and the like; look around. if all else fails, ask someone like a system
administrator or site consultant or maybe even a friend who knows more than
you do.

so now you have an FTP prompt (probably a *). type open followed by the
site number or name you want to connect to. for the beer games the site is:

	in Europe:  130.233.192.1
		directory:  pub/drinking_games
	
for example: open 130.233.192.1

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IMPORTANT: although these sites are accesible 24 hours a day, please
limit your access to them between 6pm and 8am REMOTE time.
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you will be connected to the site and asked for a username. type "anonymous"
(no quotes). you will then be asked for identification as a password.
type in your internet mail address.

now you are in the remote site. type: 

	cd pub/drinking_games

now if you type "dir" (no quotes of course) you can see the files available.

To get any of these files type:

	get <filename>

replacing filename with the game that you want. the machine then transfers
the file to your local directory, and there ya go! to exit the FTP, type
"bye." now you can do whatever you want with the file.

if you have a game that is not in the archives and you would like added to 
them, please send a detailed description of the rules to 
tgolobic@ucs.indiana.edu

also, if you have any questions or need help, send it to the same address.

-- 
tgolobic@ucs.indiana.edu        Timothy Golobic             an314@po.cwru.edu
   Indiana University     "Keeper of the Beer Games"      The Cleveland Freenet

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