September 13, 1996
QBSP / LIGHT / VIS as taken from qutils.zip on ftp.idsoftware.com
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The following is a quick DOS port of the newly released Quake utils
QBSP, LIGHT, and VIS. You should have 3 executables, 1 zipfile, and this file 
(readme.txt). I am unsure as to the reliability and or capabilities of these
programs. They *just* came out, and I figured I'd be the first on my block to
do a DOS port. So if you have any questions along those lines, dont ask them; 
I dont have any answers (yet). I think John Carmack said something about 
fixing Point Off Plane errors in this version of QBSP, but I havent looked 
into it.

These utils were ported to DOS using watcom C and the DOS4GW dos extender.

Unless you have a really great machine, you will need to set an environment
variable so that dos4gw knows to make a swapfile to simulate memory. Here
is an example that allows for a virtual memory size of 50 megs:

set DOS4GVM=minmem#512 maxmem#8192 virtualsize#50000 swapfile#qbsp.swp

Anyway have fun, I havent had any problems running qbsp or the bsp files
it produces. Light and Vis also work, but at first I was getting stack
errors (with a stack size of 64k) so I upped it to 128k. Hopefully this
will be enough? Let me know.

I have included the source. There were a FEW things I had to change, namely
the annoying thing with having to have your files in a \quake directory.
So I wouldnt mix and match source files from this zipfile with source files
from the official id qutils.zip. Unzip source.zip with the -d option (if
you actually want the source) or just delete it.

Trey Harrison
otaku@starbase.neosoft.com
Happy Level Editing