htsclient.ncurses README
------------------------

INFO

Holsham Traders is a realtime multiplayer trading game for Linux. You are a
trader in a town named Holsham, that is situated on a distant planet, send
your transporter around and try to make as much money as possible by
buying and selling goods.

Read the documentation of htsserver, the Holsham Traders server application,
(especially README.specifications) for more information about the game.

htsclient.ncurses is a ncurses-based client for Holsham Traders.


THIS RELEASE

Note: This is still a developer release. It is intended to be run with
      htsserver 0.5 or (maybe) higher. Even if it compiles on your system,
      you cannot do very much, yet:

 * The commandline options -h, --help, -V and --version work.

 * You can set the verbosity of the client with -v or --verbosity.

 * The default port the client tries to connect to can be changed via
   the commandline-option -p or --port.

 * You can read the man-page and the other documentation.

 * If you execute htsclient.ncurses it sends a login-request to htsserver.
   The server should answer with 'Login successful'. That's a sign that
   the networking code and a very basic framework of htsprotocol work.
   

LICENSE

htsclient.ncurses is covered by the GNU General Public Licence (GPL).
See COPYING for details.


FILES

See MANIFEST for a list of all files and subdirectories in the package
and what they are good for.

You should at least have a look at INSTALL which contains installation
instructions.


NEWS

Read the file NEWS for 'user-visible' changes, or, if you want more details,
read the ChangeLog.


REQUIREMENTS

 -the ncurses library(curses might work aswell, I don't know):
   ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/ncurses-4.2.tar.gz

 -htsserver-0.5 or higher:
   http://www.bingo-ev.de/~uh1763/linux/htraders.html


COMPILING AND INSTALLING

See INSTALL.

 
FURTHER INFO

See http://www.bingo-ev.de/~uh1763/linux/htraders.html for current
releases, changes, downloads, news etc.

-- 
Uwe Hermann <uh1763@bingo-ev.de> 
