roger@binky.uucp (Roger Taranto) (11/30/89)
I've been having so much fun playing Nethack that I missed patches
1 through 5. I managed to catch patch 6, though. If you can send
me the patches or can tell me where to get them, please send me mail.
Please *do not* send me the patches because I don't have the disk
space for a zillion copies of the patches.
-Roger
roger@binky.UUCP ...!{pacbell,ucbcad,rtech}!binky!rogerwcs) (12/01/89)
Various people have been asking for Nethack patches. The patches are big enough that if you don't already have Patchlevel 5, you might as well get the whole new thing. Here are some FTP sites that have already-patched sets: Non-authoritative answer: lampwick.berkeley.edu inet address = 128.32.131.141 Why not just anonymous-ftp linc.cis.upenn.edu, and grab the fully-patched sources from the pub/NH3.0 directory? No fiddling with patches necessary. A copy of the patched source is now on 'uunet.uu.net' in the directory >"~ftp/comp.sources.games/nethack3pl6". n overlay PC binary (provided by Norm) is now available on linc.cis.upenn.edu in area pub/NH3.0/PC. Following is the long version of my file, which has information on getting it from the Clarkson server as well; may not be really current. But this will at least help the non-FTP people among you. # # ### # # # ## ##### # # # # # #### ### # # # # # # # ## # # ## # # # ### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ###### ##### # # # # # # # # ### # # # # # # # # ## # # ## # # ### ## ## # # # # # # # # # #### ### Some of this data is old!! grape.ecs.clarkson.edu. It is in the directory \f\uploads as I have put the latest PC-Nethack v3.0 at patchlevel 6 here at lampwick.berkeley.edu. It is in 2 ZIP files, NH30EXE.ZIP and NH30SUP.ZIP. Get them both, unZIP them into a directory, play with the NETHACK.CNF file to set the directory you put it in, and REALLY NEED 286 or better 386 to play. Non-authoritative answer: lampwick.berkeley.edu inet address = 128.32.131.141 Authoritative answers can be found from: UCBARPA.Berkeley.EDU inet address = 128.32.130.11 UCBVAX.Berkeley.EDU inet address = 128.32.133.1 UCBVAX.Berkeley.EDU inet address = 128.32.130.12 UCBVAX.Berkeley.EDU inet address = 128.32.149.36 UCBVAX.Berkeley.EDU inet address = 128.32.137.3 VIOLET.Berkeley.EDU inet address = 128.32.136.22 Why not just anonymous-ftp linc.cis.upenn.edu, and grab the fully-patched sources from the pub/NH3.0 directory? No fiddling with patches necessary. (Did you not apply patch6 to a virgin 3.0 Patchlevel 5?) - A copy of the patched source is now on 'uunet.uu.net' in the directory >"~ftp/comp.sources.games/nethack3pl6". n overlay PC binary (provided by Norm) is now available on linc.cis.upenn.edu in area pub/NH3.0/PC. Please read the README file first for the information regarding how to put it together (it is sectioned into transit-size files). H The semi-official c.b.i.p archives are on grape.ecs.clarkson.edu which is a Zenith Z-248 running a modified version of KA9Q's TCP/IP NET that allows you to shell out to DOS while still processing packets. After shelling to DOS, we run an Opus BBS. The particulars: FTP: grape.ecs.clarkson.edu [128.153.13.196], user anonymous, password guest. Look in 00readme for timely information. Look in /d/general/cuhug.lst for a listing of files w/ descriptions. Look in /[cdef]/allfiles for listings of all files. Look in /c/bin1/*.* for c.b.i.p postings. Look in /d/graphics/pa.arc for Painter's Apprentice Look in /d/dosutil/postprn.arc for the PostScript device driver Look in /e/freemacs/*.* for Freemacs Look in /f/gif/*.gif for .GIF images. Look in /f/games/*.* for Simtel20's games. Opus: 260/360 in the Nodelist. (315)268-6667, 8N1, 1200/2400 Baud, 24 hours. Look in file area 7 for PostPrn. Look in file area 12 for Painter's Apprentice Look in file area 23 for Simtel20's games. Look in file area 25 for Freemacs Look in file area 26 for c.b.i.p postings. Look in file area 27 for .GIF images. To see the index for any category, send the server a message saying "send index latex-style", etc. Capitalization does not matter. Send server requests to archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu This message comes to you from the archive server at sun.soe.clarkson.edu, archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu. It received a message from you asking for help. The archive server is a mail-response program. That means that you mail it a request, and it mails back the response. The archive server is a very dumb program. It does not have much error checking. If you don't send it the commands that it understands, it will just answer "I don't understand you". The archive server has 4 commands. Each command must be the first word on a line. The archive server reads your entire message before it does anything, so you can have several different commands in a single message. The archive server treats the "Subject:" header line just like any other line of the message. You can use any combination of upper and lower case letters in the commands. The archives are organized into a series of directories and subdirectories. Each directory has an index, and each subdirectory has an index. The top-level index gives you an overview of what is in the subdirectories, and the index for each subdirectory tells you what is in it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are bored with reading documentation and just want to try something, then send the server a message containing the line send index latex-style When you get the index back, it will give you the names of all of the recipes in the archive; send the server another message asking it to send you the recipes that you want: send latex-style a4.sty resume.sty etc. If you want files in clear-text format (i.e. not encoded in a text formatting language) then you should ask for recipes from the "cleartext" subdirectory, like this: send cleartext corn-stew potato-soup cheese-bread etc. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is some more documentation. The server has 4 commands: "help" command: The command "help" or "send help" causes the server to send you the help file. You already know this, of course, because you are reading the help file. No other commands are honored in a message that asks for help (the server figures that you had better read the help message before you do anything else). "index" command: if your message contains a line whose first word is "index", then the server will send you the top-level index of the contents of the archive. If there are other words on that line that match the name of subdirectories, then the indexes for those subdirectories are sent instead of the top-level index. For example, you can say index or index latex-style You can then send back another message to the archive server, using a "send" command (see below) to ask it to send you the files whose name you learned from that list. If your message has an "index" or a "send index" command, then all other "send" commands will be ignored. This means that you cannot get an index and data in the same request. This is so that index requests can be given high priority.) "send" command: if your message contains a line whose first word is "send", then the archive server will send you the item(s) named on the rest of the line. To name an item, you give its directory and its name. For example send latex-style a4.sty Once you have named a category, you can put as many names as you like on the rest of the line; they will all be taken from that category. For example: send latex-style a4.sty resume.sty Each "send" command can reference only one directory. If you would like to get one recipe and one program, you must use two "send" commands, one beginning "send latex-style" and the other beginning "send program". You may put as many "send" commands as you like into one message to the server, but the more you ask for, the longer it will take to receive. See "FAIRNESS", below, for an explanation. Actually, it's not strictly true that you can put as many "send" commands as you want into one message. If the server must use uucp mail to send your files, then it cannot send more than 100K bytes in one message. If you ask for more than it can send, then it will send as much as it can and ignore the rest. "path" command: The "path" command exists to help in case you do not get responses from the server when you mail to it. Sometimes the server is unable to return mail over the incoming path. There are dozens of reasons why this might happen, and if you are a true wizard, you already know what those reasons are. If you are an apprentice wizard, you might not know all the reasons but you might know a way to circumvent them. If you put in a "path" command, then everything that the server mails to you will be mailed to that address, rather than to the return address on your mail. For example, if you say path pyramid!rutgers!zakkaroo!jj then all mail sent by the server will be sent to that address. Note: clarkson does NOT have a uucp link to seismo. A command like path seismo!someplace!name will guarantee that you do not receive the response. We do have a link to seismo.css.gov (and all other Internet sites), permitting path seismo.css.gov!someplace!name If you would like the server to determine a uucp path for you, using the most recent pathalias data, then put in a "path" command with yourname@site.uucp, e.g.: path person@place.uucp As you probably know, the pathalias data is sometimes wrong, but it is often right. EXAMPLES: 1) Find out the list of recipes that are in the archive. Send this message: To: archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Subject: hi there send index 2) Get the latex style file from the archive (you have learned their file names from the list that was sent to you in step 1). To: archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Subject: send latex-style a4.sty send latex-style file1 file2 file3 send latex-style file4 file5 file6 3) Get the a4.sty file, and send them over the best path to my site: To: seismo.css.gov!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!archive-server path myname@site.uucp send latex-style a4.sty NOTES: The archive server acknowledges every request by return mail. If you don't get a message back in a day or two (depending on how close you are to archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu on the network) you should assume that something is going wrong, and perhaps try a "path" command. If you aren't getting anywhere and you don't know a wizard to help you, try putting path myname@site.uucp in your message, where "myname" is your mailbox name and "site" is the uucp name of your machine. The delays in sending out large items from the archives are intentional, to make it difficult to get copies of everything in the archives. If you are new to the network and would like to get all back issues of everything, you should post a request to a regional newsgroup asking whether someone who is geographically near you can provide them. Don't send mail with long lines. If you want to ask for 20 recipes in one request, you don't need to put all 20 of them in one "send" command. The archive server is quite able to handle long lines, but before your mail message is received by the archive server it might pass through relay computers that will choke on long lines. The archive server does not respond to requests from users named "root", "system", "daemon", or "mailer". This is to prevent mail loops. If your name is "Bruce Root" or "Joe Daemon", and you can document this, I will happily rewrite the server to remove this restriction. Yes, I know about Norman Mailer and Waverley Root. Norman doesn't use netmail and Waverley is dead. FAIRNESS: The archive server contains many safeguards to ensure that it is not monopolized by people asking for large amounts of data. The mailer is set up so that it will send no more than a fixed amount of data each day. If the work queue contains more requests than the day's quota, then the unsent files will not be processed until the next day. Whenever the mailer is run to send its day's quota, it sends the requests out shortest-first. If you have a request waiting in the work queue and you send in another request, the new request is added to the old one (thereby increasing its size) rather than being filed anew. This prevents you from being able to send in a large number of small requests as a way of beating the system. If you request 10 files together, you will get substantially higher priority than if you make 10 requests for 1 file each. The reason for all of these quotas and limitations is that the delivery resources are finite, and there are many tens of thousands of people who would like to make use of the archive. Opus: 260/360 in the Nodelist. (315)268-6667, 8N1, 1200/2400 Baud, 24 hours. Look in file area 12 for Painter's Apprentice Look in file area 25 for Freemacs Look in file area 26 for c.b.i.p postings. Look in file area 27 for .GIF images. [Note: this archive has a mail server. Since I don't yet know how I ought to set up a CO line for it, I just put the information into the description.] Archive site sun.soe.clarkson.edu, Clarkson Archive: There is over 60 Meg here; 20 Meg of this is available via the archive-server. The Clarkson Archive is the official distribution site for Isetl (Interactive Set Language), Freemacs (PC based emacs like editor) and TeX/LaTeX/AMSTeX style files. It has all of the issues of TeXhax, TeXMaG and UKTeX. It has almost all of the files in score.stanford.edu:tex Archive-server is a mail-based server. You access it by sending mail to "archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu". The body of the message contains various commands; the commands supported are: help index send <archive> <files> path <a path from sun.soe.clarkson.edu to you> If you use the archive-server PLEASE use the 'path' command and remember the following limitations: you can't ask for more than 100k at a time; multiple file requests will be sent as a shar file; you can't get binary files. Here are some words that describe what's in the archive: TeX,Isetl,Freemacs This archive is administered by Michael DeCorte, archive-manager@sun.soe.clarkson.edu, who submitted the entry on 5 Jan 89. The archive is in the Eastern time zone. The best and worse times to access the archive: 1600-0800 best 0800-1600 worst Files tagged with a pattern matching "ftp" can be obtained with ftp. The domain name is "sun.soe.clarkson.edu" and its internet address is 128.153.12.3. The files are in directory "/pub". @ADD SITE NM sun.soe.clarkson.edu EN mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael DeCorte) 5 Jan 89 TM EST;1600-0800 best;0800-1600 worst TT Clarkson Archive AD archive-manager@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael DeCorte) MA CO ftp;ftp;sun.soe.clarkson.edu;128.153.12.3;/pub; IX KW TeX,Isetl,Freemacs DE There is over 60 Meg here; 20 Meg of this is available via the DE archive-server. The Clarkson Archive is the official distribution site DE for Isetl (Interactive Set Language), Freemacs (PC based emacs like DE editor) and TeX/LaTeX/AMSTeX style files. It has all of the issues of DE TeXhax, TeXMaG and UKTeX. It has almost all of the files in DE score.stanford.edu:tex DE DE Archive-server is a mail-based server. You access it by sending mail DE to "archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu". The body of the message DE contains various commands; the commands supported are: DE DE help DE index DE send <archive> <files> DE path <a path from sun.soe.clarkson.edu to you> DE DE If you use the archive-server PLEASE use the 'path' command and DE remember the following limitations: you can't ask for more than 100k DE at a time; multiple file requests will be sent as a shar file; you DE can't get binary files. @END -- # Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs 4M312 Holmdel NJ 201-949-0705 api.att.com!wcs # We did it for the formlessness ...
root@esacs.UUCP (Super user) (12/12/89)
I forget to tell, i have no space on the system here. I would like to get the patched sources, if somebody has them. I am new to usenet so i am not able to use anonymous ftp yet... Many thanks in advance Riccardo (Riccardo Pizzi @ ESA Computer, Rimini, ITALY)