[bf1942] Updating to DC 0.39K

James Gurney james at globalmegacorp.org
Tue Aug 19 16:47:18 EDT 2003


Hell if I know. Those were just there in the 0.39 patch. You shouldn't 
reference the .001 files in the maplist.con though. Maybe a mapper can 
explain what they're for..

john wrote:

> Yeah I was your previous post that it'd been through striprfa, but what
> are the .001 files about? ;-)
> 
> john
> 
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, James Gurney wrote:
> 
> 
>>Not diffs. There is a tool which someone on the forums produced called
>>'striprfa'. This tool removes stuff like textures from the rfa files
>>which the server does not need. This dramatically reduces the size of
>>the archives. The archives I provide on my site will therefore only work
>>for servers. They cannot be used to upgrade a client machine.
>>
>>In addition to the 9MB incremental patch you already linked to, I have a
>>  43MB complete archive which can be used for a full install. This has
>>also been stripped down:
>>
>>http://fez.cracksmokingmonkeys.net/DesertCombat-0.39k-server-full.tgz
>>
>>Whenever new releases are made, I'll try and keep up with stripped down
>>archives as well, so keep an eye on the mailing list and/or forums when
>>new mods are released (although my server only runs DC and EoD, so
>>you're on your own when it comes to the less common mods).
>>
>>James






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