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Re: Where to find the game?

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From: kru... Alan Krueger
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 1994 19:39
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In article <CJ5xL...@news2.cis.umn.edu> I screw up:
|> In article <CJ4J5...@ruacad.ac.runet.edu>, dmci...@ruacad.ac.runet.edu (David Michael Mcintyre) writes:
|> |> In article <2gcb5f$8...@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> yn...@bonjour.cc.columbia.edu (Yann Nicolas) writes:
|> |> >In article <1994Jan4.1...@ultb.isc.rit.edu>,
|> |> > <emw...@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> wrote:
|> |> >>Howzabout making it easy on DOOM lovers and posting it here?
|> |> >>
|> |> >>                                                  BloOdShEd
|> |> >
|> |> >It is *really* big (over 2.1 megs), so I don't know if it's possible... FTP
|> |> >is easy enough, isn't it? Hmm... maybe some people can't ftp...
|> |> 
|> |> I uuencoded it on my home computer just to see how big it would be.  It
|> |> ran to 51 1000 line files for the DOOM1_0.ZIP file.  Presumably the 1.2
|> |> release will be slightly larger, mabye going up to as high as 60.
|> |> 
|> |> I don't think posting it would be very practical.  A lot of people's
|> |> spoolers would cut them off from parts of it if people didn't download it
|> |> right away, and it would need to be posted at least once a week for people
|> |> to be able to get it.  Probably not worth the effort.
|> |> 
|> |> I might be willing to post it all as one gigantic file, but posting 60
|> |> separate parts just isn't worth it.
|> |> 
|> |> --Michael-- << dmci...@muselab.ac.runet.edu >> <<dmci...@vt.edu>>
|> |> 
|> 
|> Release 1.0 and the patch to 1.1 were both posted to comp.binaries.ibm.pc late
|> in December.  If these have expired, you can look in the cbip archives.  Also,
|> ftp.umn.edu has a wonderful MS-DOS gaming archive in /msdos/Games.  Doom is
   ^^^^^^^^^^^
|> hiding out in /msdos/Games/ID.

That's supposed to be ftp.uml.edu.
                            =

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