So about that gamebible...

sudo cp otp /usr/bin/otp
sudo chmod 777 /usr/bin/otp
rehash

Now you can just type 'otp'.

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(This message has been edited by Admiral Dennis (edited 06-25-2003).)

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Originally posted by wfzelle:
**That's not true exactly. When you type a command, the shell looks at the path-variable which contains a set of directories/folders (you can see it by typing "setenv"). Those directories get scanned for the command you typed. The current directory (referred to on Unix by ".") is not in the path by default. That's why you explicitly have to say that otp is in the current directory (by using "./command").

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Oh! This is useful. Being able to set a "path" would help a lot. (Now that I'm on a Mac I am out of the habit of arranging my directories for this sort of thing <g> ).

Thanks.

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Originally posted by wfzelle:
**I hope this was educational. And don't forget: Whenever you have to type more characters on the command line than seems necessary, there is a very good reason for it. What else can you expect from programmers who reduce a four letter word to a two letter one (list - > ls).

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Ha! Ain't that the truth.

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Originally posted by joethebarber:
**Bah, that one's too easy. Oh well.

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Yes, but it doesn't matter ... it's not like there's anything particularly secretive there. (Unless I missed something?)

Anyway, thanks for the clue, that got me in.

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Originally posted by wfzelle:
**genesis/bible/book2-page22-23.jpg can be found in uplink extras.

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Thank you. Got it now. It astonishes me sometimes how easy it can be to miss the obvious, even when dredging around in the obscure.

I'm still not having much luck putting the pieces together. Too many darn pieces and none of them seem to connect! Rats.

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(This message has been edited by Ricia (edited 06-14-2003).)

yeah.. i got otp to work with one file, then no more.. the spacing of the bytes just wont work out, and now whenever i try to do anything (even with those two files, rimg12 and pages 22-23) all i get out is a file that has FFFFFFFFFF in it. weird. one thing is that you have to get rid of one more byte from the encoded filed past the ONETIMEREDSHIRT chunk, delete it and the byte after it in all the encoded files.

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Originally posted by joethebarber:
**yeah.. i got otp to work with one file, then no more.. the spacing of the bytes just wont work out, and now whenever i try to do anything (even with those two files, rimg12 and pages 22-23) all i get out is a file that has FFFFFFFFFF in it. weird. one thing is that you have to get rid of one more byte from the encoded filed past the ONETIMEREDSHIRT chunk, delete it and the byte after it in all the encoded files.

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I'd been fiddling with removing the space after ONETIMEREDSHIRT but have yet to successfully achieve anything but a decrypt file with zero bytes. If I ran otp with the wrong password, I'd expect to get gibberish, not blankness. It makes me wonder if I'm setting up the otp.dat file incorrectly.

Re one file ... when using otp for security, the idea is to use each otp password only once, and then move onto the next generated one. Perhaps you are supposed to somehow use the first one to generate the next ones?

I haven't played around with the "list generating" parts of otp yet.

Which one file were you able to do?

The only file I feel I've managed something even vaguely successful was the music file, and I get the feeling I'm only part-way there with that. Anyway, that was REDSHIRT, not otp.

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I am sorry to interupt your topic but, what the heck are you talking about and what is this?:
1234564651234561548945231324564 - 2.6Khz - 4564564123487548451656561616448
6782314897648763287623487623467 - 5.2Khz - 4748923785897298754238973287483
1234564651234561548945231324564 - 10.4Khz - 4564564123487548451656561616448
9939482813848903282398488499939 - 20.8Khz - 8299298474567729104857089372737
is it just me or are the last two lines divided by something?
hmm im lost but ratio from the beginning is 1:A:1:A+.5A
yeah dont mind me im talking nonsense
but what is all that?

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darkness peering,
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Originally posted by Hacker_999Omega:
**I am sorry to interupt your topic but, what the heck are you talking about and what is this?:
1234564651234561548945231324564 - 2.6Khz - 4564564123487548451656561616448
6782314897648763287623487623467 - 5.2Khz - 4748923785897298754238973287483
1234564651234561548945231324564 - 10.4Khz - 4564564123487548451656561616448
9939482813848903282398488499939 - 20.8Khz - 8299298474567729104857089372737
is i just me or are the last two lines divided by something?
hmm im lost but ratio from the beginning is 1:A:1:A+.5A
yeah dont mind me im tlkin nonsense
but wut is all that?

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If you look in the uplink extras, in the directory "book2" there is a file book2.html. That codish looking text comes from there, right after

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from book2.html:
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BOOK II, Gamebible continued.
Book II is located on this CD in the book2 directory. You'll also find a readme.txt file, detailing how to find Book III.

You didn't think it was going to be easy did you?

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As far as I can tell, Book1 of the gamebible is only available from introversion, if you buy a hard copy of the game. In this thread, we've been working out how to get to book2 and book3. So far, I haven't had much luck. All the other files in the book2 directory are encrypted.

I have managed to decode both the world.dat file and my usr file. Some interesting results there, but nothing earth shattering. I'm still working on it.

If you're interested, the first thing to do is to open files from the game, and the extras using Notepad, or some other text editor. If you see plain text at the very beginning of the file ... Hmmmm.

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Originally posted by Admiral Dennis:
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sudo cp otp /usr/bin/otp
sudo chmod 777 /usr/bin/otp
rehash

Now you can just type 'otp'.

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I forgot to come back and thank you for this, it worked perfectly.

I also tried to lookup those commands, to see if I could figure out what exactly I was telling the computer to do, another entertaining task <grin>.

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Originally posted by Ricia:
I forgot to come back and thank you for this, it worked perfectly.

No problem. 🙂

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Originally posted by Ricia:
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I also tried to lookup those commands, to see if I could figure out what exactly I was telling the computer to do, another entertaining task <grin>.
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Haha. Ok, Here we go:

sudo cp otp /usr/bin/otp -- sudo (use root privs) cp (copy) otp (the file) /usr/bin/otp (to here as otp) (all files in /usr/bin/ are executable by just typing their name)

sudo chmod 777 /usr/bin/otp -- sudo (use root privs) chmod (change privileges) 777 (full access / lets you execute it) /usr/bin/otp (the file we are chmodding)

rehash -- makes new files in /usr/bin/ active for execution

😃

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Originally posted by Admiral Dennis:
**Haha. Ok, Here we go:

sudo cp otp /usr/bin/otp -- sudo (use root privs) cp (copy) otp (the file) /usr/bin/otp (to here as otp) (all files in /usr/bin/ are executable by just typing their name)

sudo chmod 777 /usr/bin/otp -- sudo (use root privs) chmod (change privileges) 777 (full access / lets you execute it) /usr/bin/otp (the file we are chmodding)

rehash -- makes new files in /usr/bin/ active for execution

😃

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Ah ha! I got only about half of that on my own, and the chmod info I found didn't cover 777. Besides which I couldn't fine any /usr/bin directory on my Mac. (Is it Hidden??)

Anyway, the otp program now appears to work so I ought to be able to work out the encryptions in the game bible. Slowly. But only on weekends (or else I stay up too late and am very groggy the next day <grin>.

Thanks again.

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Originally posted by Ricia:
Besides which I couldn't fine any /usr/bin directory on my Mac. (Is it Hidden??)

It's hidden from the finder, but not from the command line. You can get to it by typing "cd /usr/bin".

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It's been far too long since I fiddled with this. Has anyone here managed to decode book2?

I hereby confess that I did shell out the extra bucks (yes I am a fanatic, thankyouverymuch) and bought the Introversion disc so I could get book1. And it took me awhile to undo that, because the stinkers changed the password. But I finally got it.

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