Follow Linux-ers,

	Well, with my Girlfriend out at her parents' house, and 
nobody to tell me I'm "SPENDING TOO MUCH TIME WITH THE COMPUTER",
I decided to get out on the net, and try and get my hands on as many
little unix games I can.


	This program is kinda cheezy, but then-again, so is the orginal
Pen & Paper Hangman :-).




THE PORT:
	Well, this can not really be considered a real port, since 
I didn't change anything much.

In getguess.c there were 2 if statements that used some kind of 
CNTR functions to convert ^D and ^L to their numeric equivs.
I decided to change them to their decimal equivs., namely 4 and 12.

Look for these 2 values, and you'll see what I mean. Maybee there
was some other way, but since I believe we are all using ASCII
machines, this should hold for now.

	The other thing is that this program came with some weird 
Makefile, I changed it around somewhat, and now it compiles with
"our" make. The original Makefile is still included in this tar, and
is called Makefile.original.





COMPILATION:
	Just type make. That should do it. I used GCC ver 2.12. Just
the regular run-of-the-mill version, no special additives or 
preservatives.

	Note, either move the "words" file into your /usr/dict dir. or
change the pathnames.h file. This is the file the program uses to pick
random words from.


	 


CLOSING ARGUMENTS:
	The words used by hangman come out of a "WORDS" file in a 
directory specified in pathnames.h.
	I downloaded a file like this of our Mainframe, but I wasn't 
sure if it was licenced to HP in any way shape or form. This is why I 
went out to try and get another WORDS file that is free. 
	I used archie, and found several WORD files. I downloaded the 
English one, and that is the file included in this tar. 
You can use any words file though, just edit pathnames.h.

	I am currently hacking up the code a little so that at startup 
I can choose from different WORD files. This way I can choose if I want
the English, Dutch, etc. words. Its just a way for my girlfriend to 
play around with Dutch. (This is for private consumption only, but if
there is interest, please E-Mail me.)

	Thats about it, have fun, and please do not blame me if it 
doesn't work. Contact me and I'll try to help you out, but I'm really
no unix wiz, so my experiece and help can be quite limited.


Later,

	MikeE

	Michael J. Ellis
	The George Washington University
	mikee@seas.gwu.edu
