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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ - powwow 1.2.4 README + powwow 1.2.8 README Powwow is a client program intended mainly for playing MUD. It implements (a subset of) the telnet protocol. @@ -9,11 +9,8 @@ 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. + configure A shell script that will create a Makefile + suitable for your system *.[ch] Sources. tools/* Additional standalone utilities. powwow.help Online help file (in plain ASCII). @@ -26,16 +23,28 @@ Files you should have received: 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). + powwow is built using GNU autoconf scripts, it should detect any + system dependancies it needs and set the appropriate flags. Just + run: - You may also want to edit the Makefile in order to fine-tune powwow - to your system (change optimizations, include regexp library, etc.) + ./configure + make + + To build the powwow binary. It will run from any location, but there + are some settings set at compile time that will make more sense if + you use the "install" make target to install the binaries and + documentation together. For example, POWWOWDIR will default to the + location that "make install" will put the online powwow documentation, + making the #help feature work out of the box without modifying any + settings or flags. + + If you require changes to the build process, please e-mail the problems + (and hopefully solution) to me at bpk@hoopajoo.net. Also please + include your system information (uname -a, etc) + + There are also some other options that may be turned on or off or + forced using configure. Try "configure --help" to see the full + list of compile-time configuration options. INSTALLING @@ -101,7 +110,7 @@ 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 + the maintainer has a fair chance 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. @@ -124,11 +133,14 @@ 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 + + powwow moved to hoopajoo.net in 2005, and is now maintained by + Steve Slaven <bpk@hoopajoo.net> + + The powwow WWW page is: http://hoopajoo.net/projects/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/ + the above address. To learn more about MUME, have a look at http://fire.pvv.org/mume/ which also explains how to connect. |