Information and Installation Guide for DIRT 3.1.2
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Dirt (Abermud) is an adventure-style ("kill dwarf") game, except that 
multiple people can play at the same time.

The files doc/CHANGELOG-aber-IV and doc/Manual.ms contain changes and info for
the old original code, they are obsolescent and are included for historical
reasons only.

Dirt Authors:
Alf Salte (Alf) <salte@ifi.uio.no>, and G.Sorseth (Nicknack)
                                       <gjermund@ifi.uio.no>.

Other contributors are given credit in the data/credits file.


INSTALLATION
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1. Edit the src/config.h file, and the 'GAMEDIR' in src/Makefile.

2. Type "make"

3. If any errors occur, fix them and continue at step 2 above.

5. run bin/restart  (a program that runs in the background and
                     restarts the game if it should crash and if it
                     uses too much cpu resources.

   The executable is bin/aberd (aberd = aber-daemon), it will be started
   by restart. (but you don't _have_ to use restart of course)


Examine the =README= file in the data directory to find out what the
various files that are there are for, and edit the the bulletins, etc... 
There is also a README file in the bin-directory.

Enter the game using your master-character, and mud is ready! 

aberd options:    -c          Clear the syslog file on startup.
                  -f          Run in the forground (for debugging)
                  -d<path>    The location of the data dir. Default = ../data
                  -p <port>   Specify port number. Default is 6715.
                  -k          Kill any other mud first if it's allready running
		  -v          Print version and exit.
                  -n <number> Maximum number of players. The default is 32.

bin/Dump is a utility for dumping the player-file in a readable format.
See the top lines of src/Dump.c for more info on usage.

3.0-3.1.c is a program that converts DIRT3.0 playerfiles to the DIRT3.1 format.

Rules of distribution:

DIRT and its scenario is licensed solely for non-commercial use.
The original credits must be maintained.

The author of the original AberMUD, Alan Cox, asks that the following
characters be reserved for the original creators (but need not in any way
be special):

	Anarchy		(Alan Cox)
	Atropos		(Leon Thrane)
	Debugitt	(Cox again)
	Moog		(Richard Acott)
	Mortis		(Chris Samuel)
	White		(Jim Finnis)