
Hi. This is a beta release of asss. If you have any questions or
comments, mail them to grelminar@yahoo.com.

Most of the documentation is available in the user guide, in directory
"doc". You might want to read it before you try playing with this.

Before starting the server, there's one step you need to do (this won't
be necessary in the future). Get to a windows box and start up a copy of
subgame2.exe. Then close it. Then find two files in the directory that
you ran it in called "scrty" and "scrty1", and copy them to your asss
directory.

Now, to start using this thing, make sure you're in the root directory
of this distribution (the directory that this file is in), and run
"bin/asss". You might want to run it in a screen session so it can be
detached easily. Or you can run "bin/asss -d" to make it fork into the
background.

You can close it with the sysop command ?shutdown, or just with a
Ctrl-C. The Ctrl-C isn't a clean shutdown, so you risk losing some data.
Then again, ?shutdown isn't working so well, so Ctrl-C is just fine.

Note the presence of several empty directories: log, data, and tmp.
Don't remove any of them, the server needs them to be there to create
files in.


Known bugs:

the server segfaults on ?shutdown, except when you're running it in a
debugger :)

lots of missing features.

sometimes gets confused when downloading huge files.

billing server support is probably buggy.

