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+ powwow 1.2.4 README
+
+Powwow is a client program intended mainly for playing MUD.
+It implements (a subset of) the telnet protocol.
+
+Files you should have received:
+
+ README This text.
+ Changelog What has changed since the last release.
+ powwow.doc Complete documentation. READ this!
+ make_it A shell script that automatically compiles powwow on
+ many systems.
+ Compile.how A hopefully detailed text file showing how to compile
+ powwow on different systems.
+ Makefile Makefile: tailor it for your system if make_it fails.
+ *.[ch] Sources.
+ tools/* Additional standalone utilities.
+ powwow.help Online help file (in plain ASCII).
+ powwow.6 Man page.
+ Config.demo A demonstrative definition file for powwow
+ Hacking Read this if you want to improve/destroy powwow
+ yourself.
+ README.follow Documentation for the 'follow' mini-program.
+ README.term How to make termpowwow
+
+COMPILING
+
+ Try the shell-script 'make_it', ie type './make_it'.
+ If that doesn't work, read the file 'Compile.how', try to edit
+ the 'Makefile' manually and either run './make_it' or 'make'.
+ If you have to edit the Makefile, or edit the source
+ code, to get it to work, pleae e-mail any changes you did to:
+ <max@Linuz.sns.it>. Also include info on what system you have
+ (type 'uname -a' to get the necessary info).
+
+ You may also want to edit the Makefile in order to fine-tune powwow
+ to your system (change optimizations, include regexp library, etc.)
+
+INSTALLING
+
+ If you want powwow's definition files to go in a specific directory,
+ set the environment variable POWWOWDIR to that directory. It will be
+ searched first for definition files at startup.
+
+ Put the file powwow.6 in a suitable directory if you want users on
+ your system to be able to read the long and comprehensive man page ;)
+
+ Powwow supports the MUME editing protocol. It enables you to edit
+ texts locally with your favourite editor. So far, only MUME supports
+ this protocol, but this might change in the future.
+
+ Powwow looks for the editor in the POWWOWEDITOR enviroment variable,
+ and if it doesn't exist, in EDITOR, and uses "emacs" as default. For
+ text viewing, powwow looks for POWWOWPAGER, then PAGER, then uses
+ "more" as default.
+
+ If you are on a multi-window terminal (such as an X terminal or NCSA
+ telnet from a Mac or PC), powwow will let you start the editor in
+ another window and remain active. You will then also be able to edit
+ several texts at the same time. To achieve this, let the first
+ character of your editor/pager be '&' (which is then skipped).
+
+ Example: (Bourne shell syntax)
+
+ POWWOWEDITOR=vi Use vi as normal editor (same window as
+ powwow)
+ POWWOWEDITOR='&emacs' Use emacs as editor in a separate window (if
+ you are on an X terminal)
+ POWWOWEDITOR='&xterm -e vi' Use vi in another X window
+ POWWOWPAGER='&xterm -e less' Use less as your file viewer in another
+ X window
+
+ If you use a multi-window terminal and have emacsclient installed, it
+ is a good choice, since you only need one emacs window for all your
+ editing sessions and you don't have to start and exit emacs all the
+ time. Set POWWOWEDITOR='&emacsclient' in that case, and make sure your
+ emacs has a running server (put (server-start) in your .emacs file or
+ type M-x server-start).
+
+ If you want to use the editing functions, you must execute the
+ `#identify' command to notify the server that the client supports the
+ protocol. This can also be done with an action; see the documentation
+ for details.
+
+ For editing Mudlle programs with emacs, there is a special mode that
+ helps you with indenting. To use it, put mudlle.el in a suitable
+ place, and add the two following lines to your .emacs file:
+
+ (setq load-path (append load-path '("mydirectory")))
+ (autoload 'mudlle-mode "mudlle.el" "Turns on mudlle editing mode" t)
+
+ where you replace mydirectory with the directory where mudlle.el can
+ be found. If you put the string -*-mudlle-*- in the first line of
+ a mudlle program (i.e. in a comment), then emacs will automatically
+ turn on mudlle mode for that file when you edit it.
+ The mudlle mode can be customized to some extent. See the source for
+ details.
+
+BUGS
+
+ If you have any problems with powwow, try to fix them yourself
+ (you have the source, right?) or at least isolate the bugs so
+ the maintainer has a fair change of fixing them. Don't expect
+ a bug to be fixed, unless you explain it in detail (expecially
+ how to reproduce it) and supply the powwow and OS version,
+ as well as the compilation options.
+ Suggestions for improvements are also very welcome.
+
+AUTHORS OF CANCAN
+
+ Since powwow is based on cancan, we report also this.
+
+ Mattias Engdegard <f91-men@nada.kth.se> was the original author.
+ Many other people have contributed at least as much, including
+ Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@pvv.unit.no>, David Gay <dgay@di.epfl.ch>,
+ Gary Dezern <gdezern@satelnet.org>
+ and Lai-Chang Woo <vivriel@scs.com.sg>.
+ It is unclear who the current maintainer is, but it seems to be
+ Finn Arne Gangstad. Ask around at MUME to find out more about cancan.
+
+AUTHORS OF POWWOW
+
+ Massimiliano Ghilardi <max@Linuz.sns.it>, alias Cosmos,
+ is the original author, and Gustav Hållberg <f92-gha@nada.kth.se>
+ contributed a lot of new features.
+ The powwow WWW page is: http://Linuz.sns.it/~max/powwow.html
+
+ If you forgot where you downloaded powwow from, you can get it from
+ the above address, or from
+ ftp://Linuz.sns.it/pub/Linux/ext-pack/powwow/
+
+ To learn more about MUME, have a look at http://fire.pvv.org/mume/
+ which also explains how to connect.
+
+COPYRIGHT
+
+ Powwow is placed under the terms of GPL (GNU General Public License)
+ The GPL License can be found in the file COPYING.
+