X-NG: Fantasy/Science Fiction Name Generator ============================================ Base Requirements: - Any machine with a shell that provides perl 5 (linux, unix, Mac OS-10, Windows) Installing the Package ---------------------- Untar the package into the directory you want to execute the program from. (Windows users can use WinZip or WinRAR to uncompress .tar.gz files) tar -zxvf X-NG_v2-0.tar.gz Now you should have a directory called "X-NG/" containing all the files. (Windows users may skip this step) You now need to ensure that "x-ng.pl" is executable by issueing the command: chmod a+x x-ing.pl Next you will want to edit "x-ing.pl" in your favorite text editor and be sure that $htmlstatus is set to "0" (that is the NUMBER zero NOT the capital letter "Oh": # Turn HTML on for use on web. 0 is off. $htmlstatus = "0"; Now you just need to execute the file and it should output names. Seh