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From: steve@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Steve DeJarnett)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xtrek problem
Message-ID: <4707@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 18 Oct 88 18:19:04 GMT
References: <8810171520.AA28417@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: steve@polyslo.UUCP (Steve DeJarnett)
Organization: Lab Rat Rumpus Room -- Cal Poly SLO
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In article <8810171520.AA28417@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> DEG41560@UA1VM.BITNET (Rob Smith) writes:
> I have a little xtrek problem, but, it's only a game, so don't knock
>yourself out to answer me.
> I have two Vaxstation 2000's.  They are networked, but they run completly
>separate versions of Ultrix and X10r4.  I just got xtrek.v4 from scam.berkley.
>edu.  It compiles and runs fine.  I've played against a robot successfully.
>
> But my machines don't seem to know when there is a player on the other
>machine.

	Um, unless I'm mistaken, xtrek uses shared memory to communicate 
among the player processes.  Therefore, all of the players must run on the
same machine (at least, this is the way it is in xtrek for X11R2).  Try 
running another player on the same machine and see how it works.

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