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Text File | 1994-05-25 | 6KB | 163 lines

WELCOME
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  Okay, congratulations on getting yourself a copy
of the MS-DOS version of New Moon. Included in this
package are:

  Aragorn@Nanaevent's MS-DOS lpmud mudos driver,
based on the origional lpmud driver, and subject to
its licensing agreement. See the file readme.1st
in the bin directory for deatils on it.

  A (fairly) recent version of the New Moon mudlib
(c. 5/94), hacked to work with this driver. Most
of the modifications are to the simul_efun()'s to
cover different/missing functions in the driver.

  Rather cut-down versions of the home domain, the
admin domain, and the learning domain. There are
no guilds included, and very few man files. Sorry
if this hinders you, but hey, its better than nothing.

  Config.sys and autoexec.bat files. These need not be
used, but the driver isn't just the most compatible
of things. If you do use your own config.sys and
autoexec.bat, remember to include the system
variable definitions ( 'set XXX XXX' ), as the driver
won't go without them.

  This file (Obvious, really)

REQUIREMENTS
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   You will need a 386 or better with at least 1MB of
RAM to run your New Moon for dos. Depending on how much
work you'll be keeping locally, you'll also need about
3.5 MB of disk-space.
  What, I hear you cry, so little to run our glorious
mud? Well, you ain't seen how slow it'll go yet ;)


INSTALLATION
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  Not much to installing the driver really. It has been
zipped using version 2.04g of pkzip, and so may need
a similar version of pkunzip to unzip it. It *must*
be unzipped using the -d option (to restore the directory
structure), and it must be unzipped into a directory named
c:\lpmud\
  If your main drive is something else, you'll need to
change:

The file \lpmud\bin\config
The autoexec.bat
The config.sys
The batch file \lpmud\bin\lpmud

to reflect this.
  Once installed, you will have to change the file:

c:\lpmud\lib3\secure\master.c

to have your own name defined as a high lord rather
than mine. Use a simple text editor to do this lest
the file get nixed with special characters.


RUNNING IT
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  Having installed the beast, it only remains for
you to install the provided autoexec.bat and config.sys
files, and reboot your machine.
  After a (lengthy) pause and some blurb about the
driver, you'll be presented by a black screen with a white
bar along the bottom. Press return, and you should find
yourself looking at our nice friendly logon screen.

TROUBLESHOOTING
---------------

  If the above fails to make your every wish come true
(apart from the porsche and the tasty bit of stuff), you'll
wind up looking at the dos prompt.
  Despair ye not, type 'err' ( as in to XXX is human ), and
you'll get a blow by blow account of what the driver managed
to load and what it didn't, so that you might fix the
problem.
  Please don't be nasty to me if you have problems. In fact,
if you are nice, I might help you out a bit.

NASTY STUFF
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  Right, as you may have gathered the driver is not 100%
compatible or working. There are a few major problems which
I have not yet cured. These are:

  Get_dir() does not cope with wild-cards. This means that
you cannot 'ls m*.c' or 'mv *.c *.x'. Apologies, but you can
shell out to dos by pressing <CTRL><S> and do almost
everything expect 'upd *'.

  Add_actions()'s with a * in the fail misreribily (speel).
To fix this I have done some really nasty things to
add_action, and stuck and extra function in /std/basic/
extra_look.c (don't ask why it had to be there). My fix
isn't 100% sure, but works most of the time.

  File names must follow the dos format of XXXXXXXX.XXX, so
the vast majority of files ported over have different names.
Where files were names XXXXXXXX1, XXXXXXXX2 and so on
(particularly in the home domain files), there might be
files missing. Sorry. Blame Microsoft.

  On the brighter side of things, my system at home, of
which this is a copy works well enough for me to have
re-written and *tested* some complex bits of code such as
the mailer, the (new) title-handler, with great success.

USEFUL STUFF
------------

  While running New Moon for dos, you can press:

<CTRL><S> - to shell out to dos.
<CTRL><C> - to kill the driver. You may need to press it
            several times to get it to work.

WISHES
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  Some nice utilities to improve the system are:

  A dos keyboard-buffer enhancer. While busy, the driver uses
the dos buffer to store keypresses. By default it only
stores 16 then starts bleeping at you, but there are some
nice utilities that extend this to 256 chars or more. Very
handly.
  A dos extension to allow you to use unix-style file-names.
I would really like to get my hands on a copy of this if
anyone finds/writes one, but hey, miracles are few and far
between. I know there is one for windows, but the mudos.exe
driver eats windows for breakfast.


WAIVER
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  I abolutely do not and will not take any responsibility
for any damage to your system (unlikely) , data (probably
not), or your pride (most certainly) caused by this package.
It is provided as a service to the creator of New Moon, and
nobody other than these hallowed few can expect any kind of
support from myself or any other enlightended individual.

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 Newstyle@NewMoon, 24/5/94    -     With a Boom-Shack-A-Lack
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