To install, copy the ipks into your "Documents" directory, then use the "Software Packages" program on your PMA. Select "Install from Documents Folder" and then select Frotz and LibNCurses. It is important that both these packages are installed or else Frotz will not work. To run Frotz, open a terminal and type: frotz where "" is the z-code story file you wish to run. To run the example game, just type: zork instead. All licenses for individual software packages apply. Frotz is a recompile of the original version, as is LibNCurses. Frotz is released under the GNU GPL, a copy of which is included in this archive. LibNCurses is released under the following copyright: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of the ncurses library and terminfo utilities. ncurses/terminfo was originally written by Pavel Curtis and Zeyd M. Ben-Halim , and is currently held by the Free Software Foundation. Galen Hazelwood created this package, from sources found in ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/ncurses-4.2.tar.gz. It borrows heavily from the original debianization put together by Bruce Perens and benifitted considerably from a lot of help from David Engel . Michael Alan Dorman arranged the beast into its present form, and put a lot of effort into making ncurses fit with Debian in the best way possible. His patches for packaging the ill-fated 4.1 release form the backbone of this version. The current maintainer is greatly in debt to his illustrious predecessors. During Galen's absence, Richard Braakman , James Troup jjtroup@comp.brad.ac.uk> and J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) worked on ncurses, resulting in the 1.9.9g-8.8 version that got included in Debian 2.0. Ray took the new upstream 4.2 sources and re-did most of the packaging using the current Debian tools. I (Galen) finally rejoined the debian world at this point and used ray's work for the new ncurses 4.2 packages. (Thanks for picking up the slack for me, guys. I owe you some beers.) Changes: * added Debian GNU/Linux package maintenance system files * changed Makefile.in's to compile with -D_REENTRANT * changed configure.in to support proper compilation of debugging libraries * Fixed tget{flag,num,str} in lib_termcap ("long" strings work now) * Added /etc/terminfo directory support (ncurses/read_entry.c) * Security fixes for setuid operation (ncurses/read_{entry,termcap}.c) (based on patches courtesy of Red Hat) Changes to terminfo.src: * Removed ich(1) from linux, screen, vt320 /**************************************************************************** * Copyright (c) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * * * * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a * * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the * * "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including * * without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, * * distribute, distribute with modifications, sublicense, and/or sell * * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is * * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: * * * * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included * * in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. * * * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS * * OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF * * MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. * * IN NO EVENT SHALL THE ABOVE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, * * DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR * * OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR * * THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. * * * * Except as contained in this notice, the name(s) of the above copyright * * holders shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the * * sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written * * authorization. * ****************************************************************************/