wimpy instructions for running CI version 1.2: Ok, what you've got in your hands right now is a program called CI. It runs an interpreted C-like language called CI-C. If you haven't run an LP-Mud, I suggest not trying to run this one, because the docs I have suck.... this is after all a beta test. CI-C is very much like C, and even more like LP-C. A list of the function calls (well, most of them) is available online with the 'man' command. To compile netci, do 'make' Easy, huh? To start up netci, do netci -create& A sample database, sample.db, is included with the distribution. To run with the sample database, use: netci -load=sample.db& This sticks it in the background and connects it to port 5000. Connect to it - the only character predefined by the code in ci.dir is Wizard, with password potrzebie. e.g. % telnet localhost 5000 (....) connect wizard potrzebie To get a list of command-line options, try 'netci -help' Experiment - read through the code in ci.dir to get a feel for CI-C... email wetmore@titan.ucs.umass.edu if you have bug reports, questions, suggestions, etc... What i'm looking for is a variety of mudlibs to package with the final distribution... Anyways, be sure to read through the 'hide' and 'unhide' portions of the on-line man pages. They cover how the filesystem works... All source code and other text in this distribution is copyright november 1992 by Patrick J. Wetmore