Re: [VANILLA-CLIENTS:9] [COW] Kurt, Carlos

[Kurt Siegl <007@freemail.at>]

On Sun, 14 Mar 1999  eric john olson wrote:

>The cow client COW.2.02pl3.linux.libc5 at bigbang.astro.indiana.edu works 
>on my system.  The problem with this client are that it was not compiled 
>for small screen, and its public key is currently not on the metaserver.  

The key is not on the metaserver? It should. I attached it to this mail.

>This binary was apparently statically linked against clib version 5.4.33.
>The binary COW.3.00pl0.linux.libc5 also works but not for small screens.

That are mine and the official ones. Will make you a small screen release
for 3.00pl1 which will be released soon. for security reasons RSA clients
should be linked statically to prevent borgs replacing shared libs.

>> Clients which don't follow the official naming convention generated
>> automatically by the make, should never be uploaded anyway.
>
>I was unaware of an official naming convention.  I intentionally changed 
>the names of the keys I generated away from the defaults so they would not 

Its generated automatically if you generate a distribution with:

make distbin
make distkey

>Also, I noticed some keys have a comment line like
>
>   :cm=reserved.c blessed. Located at http://cow.netrek.org/:\
>
>I think one should not put a : into the comment since that is the delimiter
>for the entries.  The above comment field will be parsed as

Didn't notice that guess we should replace that with

Located via http at cow.netrek.org

Thanks

Kurt (007)

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key.cow.linux_libc5:ct=Client Of Win:cr=007@netrek.org:\
   :cd=March 1998:ar=Linux libc 5.x / Stable Release:cl=inl,standard2:\
   :cm=reserved.c blessed. Located at http://cow.netrek.org/:\
   :gk=f3274e17fbf2bac8ba31820223336946b81df25ac6e6500de6a677b19b5acd04:\
   :pk=9528271baffcc45df9afeaec392f5258418cdcbf3fc94e023480ec44f6b21d04: