This is "dunnet", a text adventure game written in emacs-lisp.  I decided it
would be interesting to write an elisp program, so for fun I wrote this
one.  Try to play it without looking at the code, for two reasons:

1. It's more fun if you don't cheat.
2. Since I haven't written much lisp, I'm not confident of the quality
   of the code.

You'll notice some really different things about this dungeon.  Without
giving anything away, let's just say that like much lisp code seems to
be, this dungeon is sort of recursive in a way.  A minimal knowledge of
UNIX, DOS, and some internet experience is assumed.

Thanks to help from many people including (but not limited to)
Nathan Glasser (nathan@brokaw.lcs.mit.edu)
H. B. Furuseth (h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no)
Chris Moore (more@src.bae.co.uk)
Chris Metcalf (metcalf@catfish.lcs.mit.edu)
Norman Walsh (walsh%ibis@cs.umass.edu)

I encourage comments, good and bad.  Please e-mail me what you
thought of the game.

INSTALLATION
------------

Modify the first line of dun-main.el to have a logfile that is writable
by all.  You only need to do this if you want to log where everyone died
or saved, or won.  You will also need to create this file as an empty file,
if it doesn't already exist.

You can use the 'makefile' to compile everything and encrypt the appropriate
portions of dunnet.  You may, of course, just run the code as-is.  In either
case, all of the files must be put in your load-path directory, or they
must be in your current directory when it is run.  If you do
run make, all of the compiled/encrypted files are put in ../bin.

*IMPORTANT*

There are two ways to run the program:

1. dunnet
2. dunnet.window

These files are Unix shellscripts, and one of them should be put in a
normal bin directory.  If you are on a non-unix machine, it should be
simple to set up similar script files.

NOTE: There are two additional script files, dunnet.curdir, and 
      dunnet.window.curdir.  These can be used with Unix in order
      to run dunnet in the current directory.  You may need to create
      similar scripts for other plaforms.

This software assumes you have "cl.el" (necessary), 
and "yow.el" (not critical) in the load-path directory.  These 
come standard with Gnu emacs. 

Some hints and tips.

Read the help carefully.
Save the game *very* often.
An abbreviation for examine is 'x'.  EXAMINE EVERYTHING.
You can use 'get all', but not 'drop all'.

Questions or comments to ronnie@media.mit.edu.