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From: dl2n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel Edward Lovinger)
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Subject: [c.s.wanted] Re: xtrek
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Date: 3 Dec 90 03:37:06 GMT
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Archive-name: x11/games/xtrek/1990-11-29
Archive: expo.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/xtrek.tar.Z [18.30.0.212]
Original-posting-by: dl2n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel Edward Lovinger)
Original-subject: Re: xtrek
Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti)

dan@kfw.COM (Dan Mick) writes:
> Where's the focus for xtrek activity?  I have a version with bugs, and 
> no docs, included in the X11R4 release; there must be a later archive
> or a patch or something somewhere, and if not, I'd like to send one in...

	If you have a version with no docs on the R4 tape, you were
using the code from contrib/games/xtrek. This code *somehow* (insert
incredulous rambling) got to the Consortium and they put it on the
tape. It's the wrong stuff, and broken. What you want is
contrib/games/xtrek.cmu which is verson Xtrek I 5.4 (with lotsa docs).

> Where's the archive site for xtrek?

	expo.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/xtrek.tar.Z is v Xtrek I 6.0b

	There is also an Xtrek I D 3.1 recently posted to
comp.sources.x as xtrek - this is from another (private) branch of
development from the original UCB Xtrek I. The new features of D 3.1
should probably be merged into 6.0b at some point, but someone will
need to voulnteer to do this. We don't have time here, and I'm sure
Dan Dickey @ Cray (and creator of D 3.1) has other things to do ...

	At the moment, there is no central place of development for
Xtrek I. Anyone interested in picking up should probably ping off of
Rob Ryan (rr2b@andrew.cmu.edu - 5.4 -> 6.0b) and Dan Dickey
(ddickey@lotus.cray.com if memory serves ...).


			dan lovinger
			lovinger@andrew.cmu.edu
			one of the (former) Xtrek crew @ CMU
			(version 4.0 -> 6.0b)


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