On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 07:57:22PM -0400, Jeffrey Nowakowski wrote: > The best way to grow the netrek community is to drop all frivolous > projects and work on the really important one. Since we've been at > one main server for several years now, it shouldn't be too hard to > spot a spike. Yes, I agree. However I wasn't asking for how to do it, I was asking for a measure so that after we've done it we can judge how well we did it. > The really important project is to get netrek as a single download > that includes a spiffy client with a tutorial. The download should > include the server so the user can play without connecting to the > network. It should run under 95/98/NT. It should include an option > for a small sized map that lets a small group of office workers play > and have fun. I agree, this should be done. Last time I looked into it, I tried an old version of Cygwin to do the port. I got stuck (again) on the inheritance of open socket file descriptors during a fork(). Anyone know if that is fixed yet? -- James Cameron mailto:quozl at us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/