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Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Path: oz.cdrom.com!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sunic!erinews.ericsson.se!ericom!chapelle5!eedraq
From: eedraq@aachen.ericsson.se (Raphael Quinet)
Subject: Re: Announcing DEU 5.21 for LINUX
Message-ID: <1994Aug31.130325.1661@ericsson.se>
Keywords: DEU 5.21 Linux port availability
Sender: news@ericsson.se
Nntp-Posting-Host: chapelle5.ericsson.se
Reply-To: eedraq@aachen.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Eurolab Deutschland GmbH
References: <CvDGyn.H3q@ucdavis.edu>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 13:03:25 GMT
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Hi all!
I hope you saw the message announcing the availability of DEU 5.21 for Linux.
This great job was done by Brad Hawthorne (u9c192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca) and Sam
Lantinga (slouken@cs.ucdavis.edu). I won't include the original message here,
but I would like to add a few things:
- I strongly suggest that you get the original (DOS) version of DEU 5.21 too.
Only the original version contains the demo WADs, the tutorial and full docs.
This has been done in order to save downloading time for experienced DEU users
who already have the demos from the original version.
- The two official sites for distribution of DEU are:
* infant2.sphs.indiana.edu (Indiana, USA) in /pub/doom/deu
* ftp2.montefiore.ulg.ac.be (Belgium) in /pub/doom/deu
Since infant2 is currently unavailable, here are some mirror sites:
* ftp.uwp.edu (Wisconsin, USA) in /pub/games/id/home-brew/doom/deu
* ftp.cdrom.com (California, USA) in /pub/doom/deu
* ftp.iglou.com (Kentucky, USA) in doom/deu
* ftp.uni-erlangen.de (Germany) in /pub/pc/msdos/games/ID/doom-stuff/deu
* nctuccca.edu.tw (Taiwan) in /PC/games/doom/deu
* ftp.luth.se (Sweden) in /pub/msdos/games/doom/deu
There is also an experimental Linux site which distributes the Linux version
of DEU (but you will have to connect to the other sites to get the original
version with docs and demos):
* dewdrop.water.ca.gov (USA) in /pub/doom/deu-linux
This last site also contains lots of interesting stuff for Linux.
- The names of the files containing the Linux version of DEU are:
* deu521linux.txt - informations about this version of DEU
* deu521linux.src.tgz - the sources of the program
* deu521linux.bin.tgz - the pre-compiled program and libraries
Note: if your installation of Linux is non-standard, it is possible that
the binaries won't work. This is why I advise you to always download the
sources of the program (the "src" package).
- If you don't know how to extract the files from a ".tgz" or ".tar.gz" file,
here is how:
gunzip -c deu521linux.src.tgz | tar -xvf - (using standard tar)
or:
tar -xzvf deu521linux.src.tgz (using GNU tar)
If you only want to see what is in the archive before unpacking the files,
just replace "tar -xvf -" by "tar -tvf -".
Of course, this assumes that you have a working UN*X system...
- As Sam said in his message, please do not send mail to me about this version,
because I didn't work on that port. Send your suggestions and congratulations
to them. And don't flood them with questions about how to use DEU itself.
Please read the docs and the tutorial first. If you still need some help, try
posting your questions on alt.games.doom or to some people who are not busy
adding more features to the program :-) Thanks.
Enjoy!
-Raphael
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| Mosaic: http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~quinet (under construction) |
| E-mail: eedraq@chapelle.ericsson.se or quinet@montefiore.ulg.ac.be |
| S-mail: Raphael Quinet, 9 rue des Martyrs, 4550 Nandrin (Belgium) |
| or: Raphael Quinet, Kapuzinergraben 2, 52062 Aachen (Germany) |
| And before you ask the usual question... DEU 5.3? Two weeks! :-) |
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