I have been trying to figure out how to set up games, etc on my computer
running Linux Mandrake 6.1. I downloaded linux-doom-1.8.tar.gz and have
extracted it okay. However, I have not been able to launch the game. I
have a couple of different executables to run, but I keep getting a
message "cannot execute binary file." The executables are "sdoom" or
"xdoom." According to the README file, I am suppose to be able to
launch "xdoom" from an x-server. I'm not quite sure what that means,
but I was thinking that it meant that I could run it from within KDE.
So, I started up a konsole window and tried to start the game by just
typing "./xdoom." This is where I see the message "cannot execute
binary file." I also get this message if I am at the command line
"outside" of KDE (I haven't started xwindows at this point). Another
thing that the README file says is that I need to have these executables
in my path. Which file would I edit to do this and what would the
syntax be? The path for the extracted doom files is /opt/doom-1.8.
I have also been trying to find out how to exit KDE down to a command
line (like DOS mode only in WIN98). Could someone tell me how to do
this? I know how to use linux config to make Linux boot to a command
line or to xwindows, but I like to switch back and forth between the two
without necesarily having to use a console window for the command line.
Thanks for your replies
-Bill
