Conference 44.370::system_management

42.0. "New, improved (??) Games Directory" by RDGE28::DRAPER (Steve Draper) Fri Dec 05 1986 09:22

    As part of the never-ending search for more disk space, it has
    been discovered (not surprisingly) that many people are holding
    copies of commonly used games e.g. Moria, Golf, 747, ZK etc etc.
    
    In pre-cluster days we tried to avoid this by setting up a common
    games directory, but unfortunately in the Great Rush to build
    the cluster, this seems to have been overlooked.
    
    	So.......
    
    Following an absolutely underwhelming public demand (of at least
    two requests), and in the name of Resource Conservation, we are
    pleased - nay, privileged - to announce the re-establishment
    of the
    
                              GAMES DIRECTORY
    
    After hours of debate, plus invaluable input from sub-committees
    and working parties, it has been decided that a suitable logical
    name to point to this directory would be
    
                                 SYS$GAMES
    
    So come on, people, don't be reticent (shy) - dust off those
    old games and donate them to the world (of ADG Reading). After
    all, the season of goodwill is now upon us - or so the ad's would
    have us believe! Remember, there are now only 14 games-playing
    days to Christmas (20 if you work week-ends!!). Just think of
    all those disk blocks you can recover! And remember....
    
                   A GAME A DAY MAKES THE PROJECT DELAY
    
    

re:- < Note 42.0 by RDGE28::DRAPER "Steve Draper" >

    Done: I've removed GOLF from my account.
    
    NOTE:   if  you  want  to run GOLF with the default course, you'll
    have to set def to SYS$GAMES first.

    May I suggest subdividing the games directory into subdirectories,
    one for each game. From experience, one monolithinc games directory
    gets bloody difficult to find your way aroung let alone manage
    efficiently!
    
    These days, most games consist of more than one file and often have
    score boards etc etc. Splitting them up into subdirs simplifies
    the job of using and controlling the whole business.
    
    Hows about it? Votes?

A number of files in the sys$games directory give 'insuff priv' etc

have you set up an anti-scumbag acl, or is this an accident?

We should be told!!!!!



Jerry

	> < Note 42.3 by RDGE43::KEW "waiting for the Clipper" >
	>
	>
	> A number of files in the sys$games directory give 'insuff priv' etc
	>
	> have you set up an anti-scumbag acl, or is this an accident?
	>
	> We should be told!!!!!


    Well - I never said you would be able to read/play them, did
    I ??.
    
    As a qwik fix I've reset all the ownership/protection on existing
    files. For new files that people may want to add in the future,
    I'll get round to putting a protection ACE in place (one day).
    
    steve