5th June 2001
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MUNDI(1) USER COMMANDS MUNDI(1)
NAME
MUNDI - Mike's Ultimate Networked Dungeon Implementation.
SYNOPSIS
mundi
daemon [ -d ]
DESCRIPTION
mundi is an adventure game, influenced by MUD, Dungeon aka.
Zork, Scott Adams and many other sources, including Hack &
Slay. mundi is a multi-player game, and is still under
development, so very experimental.
However, mundi will be an uncommonly sophisticated game,
including such features as a very powerful input parser,
ongoing character attributes, many display options, and
other things that I haven't thought of yet. Make no mis-
take, this is going to be a good one.
FLAGS
-d The -d flag asks the daemon for mundi to spontaneously
die when the last client logs out - that is, when the
number of users drops to 0. Note that this flag must
be given to the daemon, not to the mundi front-end.
Since the daemon will normally be auto-booted by the
mundi front-end, the average user is unlikely ever to
want to use this option. Furthermore, if the daemon is
booted like this, it will mean that the game can be
reset merely by everyone logging out at once - which
would be most disadvantageous from the fair-play point
of view.
In fact, I was going to say that this flag is only in
for debugging purposes, but when it comes down to it,
it doesn't even help me do that, if I'm completely
frank I have no idea why the thing is maintained, or
even why I did it like that in the first place.
FILES
Location text, object data etc. are loaded from files whose
exact location is a secret, to prevent cheating, or at least
to discourage it. These files cannot, in the normal course
of events, be read by any user other than the mundi
superuser (currently the author), and thus can only be
accessed via the game.
AUTHOR
Mike Taylor, aka. Unkle Mirk.
You can mail me on mirk@uk.ac.warwick.cs
Let me know of any bugs etc. you find.
Sun Release 4.0 Last change: 17th October 1988 1
MUNDI(1) USER COMMANDS MUNDI(1)
SEE ALSO
adv(1), dungeon(6), kaos(HAH!), zot(DOUBLE-HAH!)
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