RiverworldTools.tar.Z
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   This archive contains the scripts that are being used in the
Riverworld game.  isempireup and saveass were only slightly modified
for local purposes from the versions distributed by Dave Nye in the
EvilDeityTools file.  Anytime you see a MALLOCTYPE=3.1, it's an rs6000
specific kludge and can be deleted on other machines.

   The crontab file in this directory shows you how to run isempireup
and saveass on a regular basis.  It also launches some of the other
scripts in this archive once a day.  You'll need to set the deity
names and passwords in your own crontab file.  To submit a new crontab
file,
	crontab crontab
To see your current crontab "crontab -l".
Read man crontab so you know what these are doing and can change the
times to match your schedule.

   Several of the scripts use eif, because eif remembers passwords
better than I do.  There's no reason you can't replace eif with
emp_client in any of these scripts.  Just add country names and
passwords to the line that invokes emp_client.

   bin/ contains the basic scripts for starting and running a game, and
checking the login logs for irregularities.

   mpeg/ contains the scripts to convert a dump file into a gif, and
then to take a series of gifs and turn them into an mpeg file.
mpeg_encode is necessary to create an mpeg file.  Other movie
generating programs are possible, but I only use mpegs.  The pbmplus
(or netpbm) tools are also used, but are not strictly necessary to
simply making a map.

   info/ contains a pair of perl programs to turn your troff info
sources into html files for export via a WWW server.

   -Drake (dld@chem.psu.edu)		5/12/94
