Can't find my xtrekrc/netrekrc, damn it.

[glopso]

I use Ubuntu Linux and have the COW client. I serached all over the
usr/share, usr/games, etc. and couldn't find it. Can you help me?

[Zachary Uram]

Hi,

Trying looking in your $HOME directory for a file such as:
.netrekrc or .xtrekrc

$ ls -a .*trekrc

You can also specify it from the command line with the "-r" argument IIRC.


Zach

[James Cameron]

On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 06:24:44PM -0800, glopso wrote:
> I use Ubuntu Linux and have the COW client. I serached all over the
> usr/share, usr/games, etc. and couldn't find it. Can you help me?

.xtrekrc is not provided in that packaging, but you can provide one if
you place it in your home directory.

--
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/

[Zachary Uram]

Here is a basic file for COW:
http://home.utah.edu/~bj0038/netrek/Examples.html

This one shows the values:
http://ftp.netrek.org/pub/netrek/clients/cow/XTREKRC

Here is an annotated one that has some explanations:
http://james.tooraweenah.com/darcs/netrek-client-cow/XTREKRC.example

Zach

[Bill]

On Nov 8, 6:14 pm, James Cameron <qu...@us.netrek.org> wrote:
> .xtrekrc is not provided in that packaging, but you can provide one if
> you place it in your home directory.
>

It should come with a default xtrekrc file. Who knows how many new
players have run into the same problem as this guy and got turned off
from the client.
Bill

[Zachary Uram]

Good point.

Zach

[Collin Pruitt]

Yeah, there are *tons* of newbies who actually know of the existence
of a .xtrekrc file.

Although, it should be documented in the man page (not sure if it is,
I don't have the Debian package installed) if we are going to include
a sample .xtrekrc file as default.