[part 2] rec.games.pbm Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) From: lindahl@rt.com (Greg Lindahl) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 00:00:00 +0000 * Continuation 1 of a split message * ftp> ls 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list. PBM.list.gz .. 226 Transfer complete. 91 bytes received in 0.0098 seconds (9 Kbytes/s) ftp> binary 200 Type set to I. ftp> get PBM.list.gz 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for PBM.list.gz (14925 bytes). 226 Transfer complete. local: PBM.list.gz remote: PBM.list.gz 14925 bytes received in 2.6 seconds (5.6 Kbytes/s) ftp> quit 221 Goodbye. hydra ~ % gzcat PBM.list.gz | more Note that the file PBM.list.gz is in compressed format. If you don't know how to read that format, just get PBM.list instead, and the ftp server will uncompress the file for you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12) How can I generate trustable dice rolls? Many boardgames and other self-moderated PBEM games need lots of dice rolled. One good way to do this is to use an email server: you tell it the address of your opponent, and it rolls dice and sends a mail message to both of you. This way, both sides can trust the answer. Two such email servers are: dice@pbm.com dice@danpost4.uni-c.dk Send mail with "help" in the body of the message, and they will send instructions. Both servers take similar input formats. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13) How do I find oponents for board games? Eric Pass maintains a directory of gamers who want to play various board games by mail. You can contact him at epass@nyx.net or you can check out his WWW pages at: http://www.nyx.net/~epass/pbemlist.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14) Why do so few postings in this group identify what game they're for? They actually do label their topics -- but your newsreader may be the guilty party. You see, several frequent postings on this newsgroup are digests of mailing lists, and some newsreaders split digests into individual messages, many of which won't have the appropriate words in the subject line. If your newsreader is "nn", you can tell it to stop doing this by editing your ~/.nn/init file and adding the line "set split off". If you DO want a digest split, you can split it by typing "G" when you're looking at it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you think of other useful topics for this FAQ, please send me mail at lindahl@pbm.com. If you're tired of seeing this posting, add the subject line to your kill file. Greg Lindahl (lindahl@pbm.com) Up