QuARC v0.2 - Release Notes
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This win95 program allows you to administrate a quake server remotely.
The target server must be running win95.  You start the server using
quarc.exe then connect to it remotely also using quarc.exe.

This release is mainly a bug-fix and general tidy up.  Since the original
code was written over the space of 8 hours or so in the middle of the night,
the cold light of day revealed to me some of the travesties of programming
I had enacted :)  This major rewrite should fix some of the bugs.

Also added in this release is the ability to connect/disconnect multiple
times, an even multiple clients simultaneously.  In the works are security
and a bunch of other stuff.

This program should still be considered beta and dangerous!

Paul Archard, Aug 6 1996


QuARC v0.1 - Release Notes
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After much effort, I've finally managed to put together a remote console
application for Quake.  It runs on Windows 95 only, and uses Win95 TCP/IP,
although I guess another stack would work too.

This program is currently rather kludgy.  There are a couple of known issues
listed below.  It does, however, seem to work.  That's good enuf for me :)

To install:  unzip the whole lot into your quake directory. You'll probably
want to move the .dll files to your windows/system directory.  Make any mods
to your start up command line in q2.bat, then run quarc.exe - probably
easiest from the command line.  If you run it from an icon be sure to set
the working directory to your quake directory.

There are plenty of bugs to work out - it may well crash your system
mercilessly - but I wanted to get it out there as quick as I could as I
know that I've been ready to kill for this myself.  Good luck - use at your
own risk - etc. etc.

Plans are in the works to add much more functionality, such as scroll-back/
list box history, password security, and lots of things I'm sure you'll let
me know about.  For now, here are the options....

quarc [-p<port>] [-s<server>]

with no options, it runs in server mode on port 1666.
with -s it will try to connect to the given server.
with -p it will select a different port (make sure you use the same port
on your client and server) - this can function as a _very_ loose form of
security.

command line mistakes will be punishable by death of your machine ;-)


IMPORTANT
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One major problem, when you launch the server, you MUST switch to the
"command" dos box and press a key.  If you don't, quake refuses to accept
redirected commands.  This is the only reason I've let you even _see_ the
proxy dos box.



I will try to answer problems by mail, but no promises.  I have a life :)

Have fun, and happy Quakein'...

Paul Archard (paul@awinc.com)
Aug 5, 1996



