Welcome to the EW-Too code in hacked around version used for 'Surfers'. I've decided to call it 'Summink' for want of a better phrase *8-P This code is 'uptodate' as of about the start of September 1994. (Its now May 1995, I've fixed a *few* bugs, but lots still exist -Ath) First off. This code is in *NO* way supported by anybody who has ever coded it. You use it entirely at your own risk, and in doing so agree to indemnify ALL the people who have contributed coding time against any proceedings that may result due to the use or misuse of this code. We are *NOT* responsible! Having said that, I hope you have fun running this code. But please try and get 'official' permission to run it. I'd hate you to get chucked out of uni/ the sack/put in jail for running this code *8-P. There are quite a few changes you'll need to make to personalise your talker. Chief among these is to edit the rooms files in the files dir, these are:- summink.rooms boot.rooms system.rooms The rooms that you *must* have are:- the void the jail the boot room the main room the SU's comfy room You can change the names of these and the owner names, BUT you *must* update the code accordingly otherwise it will crash horribly at bootup or later on when someone tries to go to one of the rooms. The bits of code to update are:- The Void - admin.c line 5010 room.c lines 1863,1872,3642 The Jail - admin.c line 5020 plists.c line 1310 room.c lines 1837,3457,3479 The Boot room - room.c lines 1824,1825,1831,1832,1843,2761,2785,2791 The Main room - admin.c 5030 config.h 56 room.c line 2391 The SU's comfy room - admin.c 4888 room.c 1839 Of course, if you change the code the line numbers will change... There are similar changes to make if you want to change the names of the files. You will also want to edit the .msg files in the files dir, and all the files in the doc directory to personalise them. Finally there are a few bits of code you'll want to change for the login/out messages etc. Login messages - plists.c 1354 and 1358 Logout messages - parse.c 391 'leave' command - clist.h 447 Time command - commands.c 925 There may be others that I've missed. The one thing you WILL want to do is login in as 'admin' straight away, and set a password and email address on it. This character is created with FULL admin status, and can be used to grant such status to the characters that will actually be running the program. You also need to edit src/config.h to set the directory that all these files live in, specifically the bin, soc, files and logs directories. You can also change the default port for the talker to run on. If you are not on a SunOS system then you may well have to change some of the #define's at the start of config.h At some point you'll want to edit all the '.msg' files in the files directory to contain the name of YOUR talker and the email address for queries. If you want to do *that* or any other fiddling I suggest you sit down and LEARN the code and how to use gdb (hope your system has it *8-P ). -Athanasius