From: "Matt Herzog" <mherzog@mediaone.net>
> For running quake you need data files. Look for quakesw-1.0.6.tar.gz.
                                                    ^^^^^^^^^
[...]
> Am I to pay any attention to this or is it something the 
> administration couldn't (for legal reasons?) get rid of?
> there is a quake.x11 file I can execute but it gives me:
[...]
 
You need data files from original copy of quake.
quakesw*.gz is only a port of quake binaries to NetBSD.
You need also all the maps, graphics, etc.

-- 
Grzegorz "Silk" Sobanski        <silk@poznan.telbank.pl>