/* -*-C-*- The majority of this code is Copyright (c) 1991-2001 by Fuzzball Software Licensed under the GNU Public License. Some parts of this code Copyright (c) 1989-1990 by David Applegate, James Aspnes, Timothy Freeman, Bennet Yee, and Na Choon Piaw (lachesis), under the collowing terms: This material was developed by the above-mentioned authors. Permission to copy this software, to redistribute it, and to use it for any purpose is granted, subject to the following restrictions and understandings. 1. Any copy made of this software must include this copyright notice in full. 2. Users of this software agree to make their best efforts (a) to return to the above-mentioned authors any improvements or extensions that they make, so that these may be included in future releases; and (b) to inform the authors of noteworthy uses of this software. 3. All materials developed as a consequence of the use of this software shall duly acknowledge such use, in accordance with the usual standards of acknowledging credit in academic research. 4. The authors have made no warrantee or representation that the operation of this software will be error-free, and the authors are under no obligation to provide any services, by way of maintenance, update, or otherwise. 5. In conjunction with products arising from the use of this material, there shall be no use of the names of the authors, of Carnegie-Mellon University, nor of any adaptation thereof in any advertising, promotional, or sales literature without prior written consent from the authors, Carnegie-Mellon University and Bell Communications Research in each case. Parts of this code, in particular the dictionary based compression code, are copyright by Dr. Cat, 1995, and are NOT covered by the above copyright statements. Dr. Cat has given permission for the code to be used in the FB distribution of the TinyMUCK server. */