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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!mimosa.astro.indiana.edu!pitts From: pitts@mimosa.astro.indiana.edu (Jim Pitts) Subject: Netrek for Free/NetBSD Message-ID: <CGCBw6.9z5@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: mimosa.astro.indiana.edu Organization: Indiana University Astronomy Department Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 18:40:54 GMT Lines: 30 Hi, Several people sent me mail asking me about Netrek for Free/NetBSD. I thought I had posted a news item on this a while ago, but don't mind posting again: I recently finished a port of the BRM netrek client for FreeBSD. I had several people say that this binary would not run on a NetBSD machine. I offered to port this as well and Jonathan O'Brien of San Francisco State University was kind enough to set me up an account to do the work in (I run FreeBSD at home). The clients are avaliable in executable image form on ftp.cd.chalmers.se in the directory /pub/netrek/brm-bin. The files are called BRM.3.00pl2.*.gz Where * is either NetBSD or FreeBSD. Get the file using ftp binary mode, gunzip it, chmod +x it, and it should just work. The port supports -all- the BRM options including ping, short packets, network statistics and that ever popular config distress option! I have registered the RSA key at the central distribution site. I tried both clients and they were accepted at all the major servers I tried. Please feel free to let me know if there are any problems I can help you with (wrt netrek only please). ;) Jim Pitts