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Re: [kidsgames] ARRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!



On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Jeffery Douglas Waddell wrote:

> 
> Hello,  no I'm not dead but my main server is....
> 

I am in the same situation.  I have a cobbled together server (remember my
'router' from the last meeting?  running SuSE, which is not bad...

> hangman... I just want to add a choice of word list and stuff, why does it
> have to be so freaking hard to mess with.  First I get the source (apt-get
> install bsdgames), then I read the documentation, then I try to to do what
> it says and it DOES NOT work.  So I gcc it by hand, and it goes nuts
> about not having curses.h, so I check and sure enough I need the
> DEVELOPMENT ncurses package, which I install.... so now the thing tries to
> compile (from my hand carved gcc line) and bombs saying the code is bad.
> <shrug>  The really ANNOYING part is that THIS version of the hangman code
> SAYS it supports -d dictionaryfilename but the binary on that system that
> is already installed DOES NOT.  ARRRGGGHHHHHH.....  And why are all of
> these games bundled together so tightly anyway?

I had a similar problem trying to get the 'number' program working.  it is
kind of neat though.  I guess the people to ask about that bundle issue would
be them there debian folks...

> went to the main server and did 'apt-get install  zope' which it decided
> it need a bunch of stuff and I told it to go ahead.....   I know have
> zope.  Tested it out.  It REQUIRES a frames capable browser to USE the
> freakin' thing.   Did I mention that I don't LIKE frames.....

yes, but even lynx handles them fairly nicely...

> 
> Things from the bsdgames that I think have potential are hangman, arith,
> fortune, and boggle.  NONE of which I can compile.

like I said, 'number' is pretty cool as well.

> I hope I can recover my main server tomorrow, please somebody send me some
> decent hardware that doesn't crash all the time.... ARRRGGGGHHHHHHHH.   Or
> some money so I can buy some...... 

I wish I had some to send you... :(

> And somebody tell DEBIAN that not
> EVERYBODY has a HIGH SPEED connection to the internet.....ARRRGGGGGHHHHH

I hear that.  I mean I tried to get an iso image, it was ... weird, I needed
to download about 5+ gig of packages to make it, I didn't have the hd space at
the moment, so I just went out and bought some debian CDs... they are slink,
but still fairly handy to have around.

> 
> I don't know if this message (coming from built from source pine 4.10 on
> the laptop which is connect via pppd (custom built null modem cabling)
> through the router machine which thankfully is still up) will get through
> my firewall and out to the internet, but I'm going to try to send it.
> 

yep, got it!  (obviously :-P   )

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