Installation notes
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- I added an old and empty action file.. make your own actions!
- To get you aquanted with the code i added 2 (read two!) backdoors! Find
  them before opening the mud for the public! 
  Believe me, it is needed, cause otherwise there will be hundreds of muds
  out there with no coders and with people not capable of running a mud by 
  themselves (codewise). Work with it, explore it, and find its secrets!
- I Removed all colors.. give the mud your own touch!
- The code is pretty stable but far from perfect, some things that needs work
  * Linkdead & writers dont get along
  * Aberchat can cause the mud to roof cpu, so does intermud
  * Some unfound crashbugs still exsist
  * The code has a lot of loose ends, unfinished ideas etc
  * Combat and spell system date back to the old Dirt code! needs hefty
    reworking! 
- This mud wont work with RedHat Distribution 5.0!
- Get yourself aquanted with unix and makefiles, and working with code on 
  unix machines if you arent
- pDirt uses a crude asynchrone Domain name lookup. This is to stop the
  much dreaded "login lag", caused by the mud waiting for a hostname to
  be resolved. In order to use this, you'll have to start the muddns binairy
  before you start the mud binairy!
  If you do not wish to use this feature, simply dont start the muddns and
  the code will fall back to the old mode.

To install from scratch follow the following steps. These steps have been
checked and work standard linux (which most ISP are anyways), but hopefully
wont cause much problems on AIX en HPUX as well.. SUN is untested!

1) cd to pdirt/drv
2) configure
3) Go to pdirt/data/CONFIG
4) Edit prived and the other configuration files, put all coowners in the
   prived file and let them use the unveil command.
5) go to pdirt/drv/bin
6) start muddns
7) start aberd

if configure stops prematurely.. you can go to the pdirt/drv/src directory
and type makenew for a remake from scratch or just plain 'make'.

Notes for Aberchat:
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Aberchat is an addition to standard idirts, which allows the players on the
muds to chat with players on other muds. Aberchat works by connecting to a chat
server which then will send your messages to other muds. To be able to use
this feature you will have to ask a password at the gods of Smile, since they
admin the server part. Note: You NEED a valid password to use this feature!
(The password needs to be placed in the include/Aberchat/client_int.h file)

The original code was made by Giancarlo Castrataro.

Notes for Intermud:
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InterMUD is somewhat the same as aberchat, except it originated in the LPC
world. It too allows you to chat with other players on other muds, but unlike
aberchat which varies from 10 to 20 muds.. Intermud allows you to chat with
100+ muds. Be aware though, that this code isnt working perfectly!

You will need to modify the Makefile to compile in the Intermud support.. IE
dont use this when you first start.. try it once you know what you are doing!

RedHat 5.1
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Edit the Makefile.config and add -lcrypt