### netrun-0.3.1b1 README file

    ]-*-[ README

    Updated at v0.3.1b1.

    The documentation, unfortunately. Remind me to write proper docs - or at
    least put them in proper places.

    [Hmm, could use a better title.]

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     ##   #####       By Kevin Rudat <krudat@sourceforge.net>,
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    ]-*-[ The Story:

    [Cyberpunk - netrunners, cyberjacks. William Gibson's works, Johnny
    Mnemonic, and more recently The Matrix.]

    [Hrm. Something about a competition...just the rankings board, really.
    Retire first to see if you've won, or something like that.]

    ]-*-[ COPYING:

    See the file COPYING. In short, open source.

    ]-*-[ The Status:

    The game is playable - you can get a contiguous game (it can be saved), and
    with suffifcient perseverance (or a decent script) there's no reason why one
    can't get Rank 5. However, it's still quite a way from finished - the game
    is rather boring in many aspects, and many features (colour, day-limits,
    many other things) are simply unfinished.

      As I said, this software is beta. Open-source beta. This means that YOU
    can fix this! The standard things apply - I'd _love_ any contributions, bug
    reports, bug fixes, patches, ideas, documentation, new titles for the
    README, missed credits, and any other useful input. Flames to /dev/null or
    the Recycle Bin as appropriate.

    ]-*-[ Portability:

    [Mental note: dig up that old dos compiler and get to work...]

    At the moment, to my knowledge, Netrun requires a libc computer with C
    compiler, Make, and some form of curses library with development files.

      However, I can't even guarantee that. I'm develop-and-testing it on a
    Pentium-class box running Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 (slink) with libncurses-4,
    which means that the code's portability just to other Linux flavours is may
    well be through the floor, let alone to (say) Windoze. This is to say
    nothing of running at speed on 486s!

      As always, however, I'd appreciate reports, patches and even tarballs of
    the ports, so I can roll them into the main distribution (or not).

    ]-*-[ Installation:

    See the file INSTALL.

    ]-*-[ Credits:

    See CREDITS.

    ]-*-[ News:

    See NEWS.

    ]-*-[ Contributing (Website Plug):

    Netrun is on Sourceforge: <http://sourceforge.net/projects/netrun>.
    (That specific URL could change.) Note that it doesn't have a decent
    website. However, here one can find the Netrun cvs tree, and something
    resembling a `latest release' (pfft), as well as a mailing list for any
    correspondence.