Re: [VANILLA-LIST:3002] COWlite

["Matthew Furrow" <MFURROW99@ubishops.ca>]

> COW rather than COW-lite might behave better.  Give it a go.
> 
> Unless your box is slower than a 486/100 and has less than 16Mb of RAM,
> I doubt if COW-lite would run any faster.  COW can be installed without
> the fancy graphics.

	OK, so I'm looking to try COW. I must confess, though, that I'm 
having a rather hard time with the ftp sites. I have no idea what a 
'binary' is, but I tried to download it from 
www.cow.netrek.org/stable/ for Win95 and winzip didn't recognize it 
as a zip file. So I went to the bigbang.astro.indiana.edu ftp site, 
which said there was a port of COW 3.0 for win95. When I found 
something that claimed to be COW 3.0, it was dated 1998 some 
time and refused to run, claiming it was too out date. I went to 
ftp.netrek.org/pub/netrek/clients/cow/COW-bin and was faced with 
an array of incomprehensible file names, and a readme file dated 
1998 asserting that there was no Win95 port. 

I would greatly appreciate it if someone would explain to me which 
file I should download and if possible, why. I'm sorry if I'm sounding 
like an idiot but I'm really lost here. And if I'm lost, think of how 
encouraging this whole thing would be to a newbie...

Thanks,

Matthew Furrow
mfurrow99@ubishops.ca