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This directory contains the "official" BINARY distribution of PC
NetHack 3.0j (a.k.a. patchlevel 10). The source code, if you want it,
is stored in /pub/NH3.0.
The binary consists of this readme.1st and the following two files:
bsd sum
name size sV sum -r brik chksum
------------ ------ --------- -----------
NH30JPC1.EXE 233078 32026 456 26594615b
NH30JPC2.EXE 283252 41551 554 2489525528b
Be careful to transfer the .EXE files in BINARY mode, both when FTPing
them from here AND when downloading them to your PC, otherwise they
won't work at all!
There are two ways of installing NetHack. The easy way is to create a
directory on your hard disk (which should have perhaps 1.5M free --
NetHack is quite big and it can use a lot of temporary space while you
are playing, too), and run each of the two distribution files with
your hack directory as an argument, perhaps something like this:
MKDIR C:\GAMES\NETHACK
NH30JPC1 C:\GAMES\NETHACK\
NH30JPC2 C:\GAMES\NETHACK\
(note well the trailing backslashes). They will unpack themselves
into the 22 files of a runnable NetHack. At this point you want to
start following the instructions in the README file that will be among
those that materialise themselves in this process.
If, on the other hand, you are concerned about the possibility of
viruses infecting your machine, you should be aware that PKZIP can
unpack self-extracting ZIP archives such as these WITHOUT running
them, and it might be a reasonable idea to do that. Furthermore, this
will give you a chance to validate the checksums on the NetHack files
before unpacking. Note that when it comes to getting yourself a copy
of PKZIP you are on your own, because if you don't trust one of our
.EXEs, you'd be nuts to trust another!
Whatever the way in which you finally unpack NetHack, you should get
the following files:
Name Size Zip CRC Brik CRC Comments
------------ ------ -------- ----------- ------------------------------
README 27302 b8d11a14 4001933794 More helpful info
LICENSE 5006 46c3e7da 3258921257 NetHack license. Please read.
NETHACK.CNF 3658 7b826669 4121920615 User configuration file.
TERMCAP 5555 d140c9f1 1282750688 Arcane configuation file.
NETHACK.EXE 299008 f75517c6 145418297b The game - part 1
NETHACK1.OVL 290304 0f8833af 4034382928b part 2 \ put in same dir
NETHACK2.OVL 248320 64625d40 2610799295b part 3 / as NETHACK.EXE!!!
CASTLE 1829 8aa1232d 1969151186b Data files ...
ENDGAME 1004 0a6aaa29 4120204758b
TOWER1 380 bdc5fdb2 1111097933b
TOWER2 335 a4db894c 1529116339b
TOWER3 356 24068f0b 3690557684b
ORACLES 4478 2fa350cb 4086068577
HISTORY 3236 b022ac65 1513819506
DATA 23261 7f71ed3a 512054462
RUMORS 40892 456c4730 3130243279b
HH 3660 ca6ba49d 3154127134
HELP 6820 b2fc1570 2590120504
CMDHELP 4017 b8873aa5 1262420870
OPTHELP 4113 67f7454e 2324224409 ... selif ataD
GUIDEBK.TXT 51869 8bb463de 3163535027 A sort-of Owner's Manual
GUIDEBK.TEX 55291 319b3d1e 1935234205 the same in TeX format
Give copies to your friends, and above all:
Hack On!