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1$NetBSD: Original_READ_ME,v 1.3 2006/11/24 22:04:21 wiz Exp $
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3This is export hack, my first semester programming project.
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5To set it up for your system, you will have to do the following:
6	1: create a hack uid, to own the top ten list, etc.
7	2: create a hack directory "/usr/lib/game/hack" is the default.
8	2.5: make the directory 700 mode.	/* sav files go in there...*/
9	3: modify hack.main.c to use the new directory.
10	4: modify hack.main.c so it uses the new hack gid.  Gid accounts can
11go into magic mode without the password, can get cores with ^G, etc.
12(make sure gid isn't checked anywhere else...)
13	5: recompile hack.
14	6: put it in games after making it set-uid hack.
15	8: fix the bugs I undobtedly left in it.
16	9: tell me what you think of it.
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18	Hack uses the UCB file /etc/termcap to get your terminal escape codes.
19If you don't use it, you will have to make extensive changes to hack.pri.c
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21If you find any bugs (That you think I don't know about), or have any
22awesome new changes (Like a better save (One that works!)), or have ANY
23questions, write me
24		Jay Fenlason
25		29 East St.
26		Sudbury Mass.
27			01776
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29or call me at (617) 443-5036.  Since I have both a modem and a teen-age
30sister, Good Luck.
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33Hack is split (roughly) into several source files that do different things.
34I have tried to fit all the procedures having to do with a certain segment
35of the game into a single file, but the job is not the best in the world.
36The rough splits are:
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38hack.c		General random stuff and things I never got around to moving.
39hack.main.c	main() and other random procedures, also the lock file stuff.
40hack.mon.c	Monsters, moving, attacking, etc.
41hack.do.c	drink, eat, read, wield, save, etc.
42hack.do1.c	zap, wear, remove, etc...
43hack.pri.c	stuff having to do with the screen, most of the terminal
44		independent stuff is in here.
45hack.lev.c	temp files and calling of mklev.
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47Because of the peculiar restraints on our system, I make mklev (create
48a level) a separate procedure execd by hack when needed.  The source for
49mklev is (Naturaly) mklev.c.  You may want to put mklev back into hack.
50Good luck.
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52Most of hack was written by me, with help from
53		Kenny Woodland (KW)	(general random things including
54			the original BUZZ())
55		Mike Thome	(MT)	(The original chamelian)
56	and	Jon Payne	(JP)	(The original lock file kludge and
57			the massive CURS())
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59This entire program would not have been possible without the SFSU Logo
60Workshop.  I am eternally grateful to all of our students (Especially K.L.),
61without whom I would never have seen Rogue.  I am especially grateful to
62Mike Clancy, without whose generous help I would never have gotten to play
63ROGUE.
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