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To get the dice images for this application click on this link:

dice_images.tar.gz

and download this file to your HTML Documents dicedirectory on your UNIX or LINUX web server. If you are downloading this file to a PC or Mac and then intend to upload it to a UNIX machine, be sure to save the file as points.tar.gz, then ftp it as a binary file called points.tar.gz. Once the file is in place use the gzip utility to expand the files by typing:

gunzip dice_images.tar.gz

If you don't have this freeware compression utility you can get it at:

ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/unsupported/gnu/

Once the file is unzipped it will be in this format:

dice_images.tar

To untar this file type the following:

tar -xvf dice_images.tar

The result should be the dice_images directory, which contains the 6 die images that are used in this application. Be sure to chmod these files to 755  and chmod the dice_image directory itself to 755.  If you downloaded this file to the correct location, then the program should have no problem rendering them.

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