Setting a Quake shortcut for a specific server

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If I have a shortcut to quake on my desktop, how would I go about setting
that shortcut to connect to a specific server without going thriugh the
multiplayer menu?

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Or create a config file in your quake directory. I have a file called

friends_name.cfg

with the contents of

connect xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

where friends_name is my friend's name and xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is his IP
address. In order to connect, I go into the console and type

exec friends_name

This way you can have more than one config file if you have more than
one server to which you frequently connect. If the server uses a
password, then precede the line "connect xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" with
"password pass" where pass is the password.

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"kong" <kong@myrapidsys.com> wrote in
newsGe7d.2847$GT4.2668@news.flashnewsgroups.com:

> Most players use a game browser. I use The all seeing eye.
> http://www.udpsoft.com/eye2/index.html
> It is worth getting the license for it as well. This thing scans
> servers
> amazingly fast and accurate. I scan 261 rocket arena servers in about
> 3 seconds. Plus you can set servers up in a favorites folder and not
> scan at all. Just open the browser double click the server and it
> automaticly opens q3 to the proper game mod and the server of your
> choice. "Turd Furgeson" <funny@name.org> wrote in message
> news:Xns956FB7DF45668TurdFurgeson@63.223.5.246...
>> If I have a shortcut to quake on my desktop, how would I go about
>> setting that shortcut to connect to a specific server without going
>> thriugh the multiplayer menu?
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I installed that... after a few uses, the Quake 3 tree dissapeared and
now I have no tree at all. I am at a loss as to why this is...

I can't bring up any trees.