From: Peep P. <so...@us...> - 2004-03-20 16:14:18
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Update of /cvsroot/agd/server In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv4043 Modified Files: README Log Message: Formatted for a 80-character display. Index: README =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/agd/server/README,v retrieving revision 1.3 retrieving revision 1.4 diff -u -d -r1.3 -r1.4 --- README 16 Mar 2004 20:17:32 -0000 1.3 +++ README 20 Mar 2004 16:04:20 -0000 1.4 @@ -5,49 +5,53 @@ Peep Pullerits <so...@es...> -------------------------------------- - This is a small LPMUD driver, intended to run graphical MUDs with Sierra AGI-like graphics. - Currently no graphics are implemented, as even the LPC compiler/interpreter is a - work-in-progress. - It can act as a basic chat server with the default lib. - If you write anything in LPC, I would be glad if you send it to me. +This is a small LPMUD driver, intended to run graphical MUDs +with Sierra AGI-like graphics. +Currently no graphics are implemented, as even the LPC +compiler/interpreter is a work-in-progress. +It can act as a basic chat server with the default lib. +If you write anything in LPC, I would be glad if you send it to me. - Installing. - Follow the instructions in the INSTALL file that came with this package. +1. Installing. +Follow the instructions in the INSTALL file that came with +this package. - Running. - AGD comes with a default configuration in /usr/share/agd/options, and - it will use this file if it isn't given a parameter. This, however, - expects you to have done 'make install', but probably not everyone - who wants to run this driver will have root access to their machine. - So, you can copy the binary, options file and library to your - home directory and provide a configuration file path as an argument - each time you run the driver (using a shell script, for example). +2. Running. +AGD comes with a default configuration in /usr/share/agd/options, +and it will use this file if it isn't given a parameter. +This, however, expects you to have done 'make install', but +probably not everyone who wants to run this driver will have +root access to their machine. +So, you can copy the binary, options file and library to your +home directory and provide a configuration file path as an argument +each time you run the driver (using a shell script, for example). - So, in short: - If you have root access, do 'make install' and run agd - with 'agd'. AGD will use /usr/share/agd/options for the configuration. - If you don't have root access, run agd with './agd options', - assuming the 'agd' binary and the 'options' file are in the same directory. +So, in short: +If you have root access, do 'make install' and run agd +with 'agd'. AGD will use /usr/share/agd/options for the configuration. +If you don't have root access, run agd with './agd options', +assuming the 'agd' binary and the 'options' file are in the +same directory. - There might be a 'make userinstall' target in the future that will do this - automatically. +There might be a 'make userinstall' target in the future that +will do this automatically. - You might also want to separate stderr and stdout, by redirecting one or both - of them to a file, because some lines don't have newlines, so stdout and stderr - could get mixed up. Like this: - './agd >agd.out 2>agd.err' - Or write a shell script to do it. +You might also want to separate stderr and stdout, by redirecting +one or both of them to a file, because some lines don't have +newlines, so stdout and stderr could get mixed up. Like this: + './agd >agd.out 2>agd.err' +Or write a shell script to do it. - Bugs. - This is an alpha release. As such, it most probably is infestated with bugs. - Please do try to break it, and report everything you find. +3. Bugs. +This is an alpha release. As such, it most probably is +full of bugs. +Please do try to break it, and report everything you find. - If the driver crashes with a segmentation fault, do this: - $ gdb agd - (gdb) run - <reproduce the bug> - Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. - (gdb) backtrace - - And include the output in your bug report. +If the driver crashes with a segmentation fault, do this: + $ gdb agd + (gdb) run + <reproduce the bug> + Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. + (gdb) backtrace + And include the output in your bug report. |