Gazebo Chess for Windows

[John R Coffey]

When I tried to decode, it complained that the zip file was incomplete.
When I tried then to unzip the zip file, it pkunzip complained that
the zip file was missing 42 bytes. Anyone else have this problem.?
.

[Thomas Heiling]

Hello !

I may be blind ( and it is early Monday Morning ),
but i got the following after uudecode +
unzip -t gazebo.
This is a U*ix machine and i have tried it with
a HP-UX system, anything wrong with the original
poster ?

This is the Error message with unzip -t :

error: missing 42 bytes in zipfile (attempting to process anyway)

error: attempt to seek before beginning of zipfile
(please check that you have transferred or created the zipfile in the
appropriate BINARY mode and that you have compiled unzip properly)
file #1: bad zipfile offset (can't find local header sig)
Testing: bishop.bmp OK
Testing: king.bmp OK
Testing: knight.bmp OK
Testing: mt.bmp OK
Testing: pawn.bmp OK
Testing: queen.bmp OK
Testing: rook.bmp OK

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Thomas Heiling Pharmacist & Doctorate at
Pharmazeutisches Institut Uni Wuerzburg - Germany
Email pha...@wrzx12.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de (HP-UX)
t...@wpzd07.pzlc.uni-wuerzburg.de (Linux)
or pha...@vax.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de ( VAX )
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[Elliott Winslow]

t...@wpzd07.pzlc.uni-wuerzburg.de (Thomas Heiling) writes:

>I may be blind ( and it is early Monday Morning ),
>but i got the following after uudecode +
>unzip -t gazebo.

I got the same or similar problem. And I was very careful in the
uudecoding.

[Mats Larsson]

In article <CouIF...@world.std.com> m...@world.std.com (Roy Eassa) writes:
>From: m...@world.std.com (Roy Eassa)
>Subject: Re: Gazebo Chess for Windows
>Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 02:47:42 GMT

>e...@panix.com (Elliott Winslow) writes:

>>t...@wpzd07.pzlc.uni-wuerzburg.de (Thomas Heiling) writes:

>Me too.

Could we have another copy please?

[Roy Eassa]

e...@panix.com (Elliott Winslow) writes:

>t...@wpzd07.pzlc.uni-wuerzburg.de (Thomas Heiling) writes:

Me too.

[Doyen T. Klein]

Re: Gazebo which I downloaded and am now reluctant to
decode and unzip

> Are you sure you want to do that? Are you sure it isn't a Trojan Horse?

Hum? Maybe it's a Trojan Gazebo?, the first
time you accept a gambit, blam - there goes your hard drive.

--
.dtk It says little, does less, means nothing.

[Lee Sailer]

Stuart Cracraft (crac...@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu) wrote:
> Enclosed you will find the first release of Gazebo Chess for Windows
> (IBM PC) program. It is being transmitted to the network for feedback
> from the community.

No offense intended to the person who posted Gazebo Chess for
Windows...

Folks. Be very careful. You are downloading an unknown executable from
the nets, and then running it. Are you sure you want to do that? Are

you sure it isn't a Trojan Horse?

good luck

[tewald]

Have you considered uploading the executable to ftp chess.uoknor.edu?
Some of us are not able to grab the files via the network news this way.

Thomas Ewald
tew...@argo.acs.oakland.edu

[will...@delphi.com]

For what it's worth, I only saw one (obviously incomplete) Gazebo post.
William Harris

[br00031]

sai...@esr.hp.com (Lee Sailer) writes:

I presume you mean that there is a risk of getting a virus from this
unknown program. My first question is why do you think there is more
risk of catching a virus from an executable file than any other type.
Virus code can, I believe, be hidden anywhere. The fact that a
program does or does not have a familiar name is not helpfull. If I
was going to put a virus on the net I might give thefile some common
well known name.
The concerns you have about virus are shared my all of us. Any one
who communicates by computer to The internet or Connects to a bbs is
at some risk. It may even be possible to transmit viruses through a
lan mailing system. What can we do to save protect ourselves? I
think well all know but here goes:
1. Backup your hard drive on a regular basis.
2 Get some virus protection software and use it.
3. It is probrably a good idea to decpmpress questionalble files off
your hard drive. Use a floppy or a smaller extra hard drive you might
have lying around. You might try ccreating a ram drive to
decompreess files in. If there bad jetison the whole thing. May be a
separate Stacker drive would work the same way.
Citizens of the world wide computing community should not be
frightened out of using this technology by the pernicious misdeeds of
the malevolent few.

[Peter Mckenzie]

br0...@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (br00031) writes:
>I presume you mean that there is a risk of getting a virus from this
>unknown program. My first question is why do you think there is more
>risk of catching a virus from an executable file than any other type.
>Virus code can, I believe, be hidden anywhere. The fact that a

Lets not forget that there is nothing magical about a virus.
Its a program and to do anything it must be EXECUTED...
just like any other program.
So while it may be possible for a virus to be
hidden anywhere, the most effective place to put a virus is
in an excutable.
If a virus were hidden in a non-executable file then it would
just sit there doing NOTHING unless the file was actually compiled
and executed.

[...]

>3. It is probrably a good idea to decpmpress questionalble files off
>your hard drive. Use a floppy or a smaller extra hard drive you might
>have lying around. You might try ccreating a ram drive to
>decompreess files in. If there bad jetison the whole thing. May be a
>separate Stacker drive would work the same way.

There is no danger while actually decompressing the files in question.
This is because the only program executing is the decompression program.
Unless the decompression program itself is faulty, all that is happening
is that the compressed files are being transformed to decompressed
files.
The real danger comes when you actually execute the files in question.
Then they become active and may actually do something.

Peter Mckenzie.