Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!clyde.concordia.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!rochester!cornell!uw-beaver!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!reed!minar From: minar@reed.bitnet (Nelson Minar,L08,x640,7776519) Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs Subject: Re: xconq 5.3 - missing the right map files? Message-ID: <15337@reed.UUCP> Date: 15 Aug 90 00:10:56 GMT References: <82761@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <11282@chaph.usc.edu> <15329@reed.UUCP> <1990Aug14.202517.12939@viewlogic.com> Sender: news@reed.UUCP Reply-To: minar@reed.bitnet (Nelson Minar) Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR Lines: 28 In article <1990Aug14.202517.12939@viewlogic.com> peter@hari.VIEWlogic.com (Peter Colby) writes: >Does this mean you have the source to xconq5.3? yes. >I have been unable to ftp a complete copy from scam.berkeley.edu. It gets about >halfway and dies. However, perusing the half that I can get, I noticed that >it seems to include the complete library followed by a 400K file called >xconq5.3... This doesn't sound like source to me. Can't help you with flaky ftp. We had no troubles, but thats another story.. The distribution itself is broken. It includes: the source code (yay!) the old map files (useless) the old library stuff - bitmaps, periods, scenarios (still useful) a tar file called xconq5.3, which is yet ANOTHER copy of the old libraries. It is broken, and should not be there anyway.. What it is missing is the documentation. >I had also heard rumors that a copy was to be found at Stan Shebs old school >(cs.utah.edu) but I couldn't find anything there either. Does Shebs no longer exist at cs.utah.edu? That would explain why I never got a reply on my letter. Is he reachable? >By the way, I did ftp the modified maps from Denmark and they look OK (insofar >as I don't know what the new format is supposed to be like. They work fine. The only thing is missing is utah.map, and that is hardly a great loss..