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    README.PC		This file
    Makefile.tcc	A make file for Turbo-C and Opus Make

    patch1		A file for patch(1) to patch various files in
			the distribution Scrabble.

    util.c		Replacement for original util.c



  This is an initial attempt to get Wayne Christopher's Scrabble program
running under MS-DOS.  I initially attempted to use Microsoft C v5.1, but
soon ran into some strange bugs, which prompted me to switch over to Turbo-C.
After a little while, I was able to get the whole thing compiled and running
fine.  

  To compile, you will need Turbo-C, and Bjorn Larsson's PC-Curses package.
Bjorn's address is:

 ...mcvax!enea!infovax!bl 

  from the notes in the PC-Curses source files.  I used version v1.3 of the
code - earlier (or later) versions may also work.

  I have included a Makefile which seems to work fairly well.  I cheated in
creating the compilation command for scrabble.exe though - I use *.obj in
the command line, which will bomb if, for example, plural.obj is lying 
around.  Before you do a make, just delete any spurious obj's like this.
I used OpusMake from Opus Software, an excellent program - other make programs
may or may not work.

  Note that refresh.c from the original distribution is not needed on the
PC.  All the diff files should be applied to the original distributed
sources.  There is a new util.c file needed for MS-DOS, as the diffs to
the original Unix file were larger than the file itself.

  The only problem so far is that I can only get the program to read in a 
dictionary of about 88K or so, which may be sufficient, but I don't have a
good dictionary for DOS.  In testing, I just skipped about 3 out of every 4
words from the one I played with on Unix, and it loaded, but a lot of good
words were obviously deleted by using this random deletion.  Also, the Unix
dictionary has things like roman numerals, words such as "qs" (more than one
q), which aren't good Scrabble words.  If anyone gets a good DOS dictionary,
tell me.  Also, if you can up the limit that the program can read in, please
let me know as well.  I don't have much experience with far pointers, and may
have used them incorrectly.

  Anyway, I hope people can get some use out of this program.  It seems pretty
robust, and plays a decent game of Scrabble (even with the mutant wordlist).
Please let me know if anyone makes any improvements to the MS-DOS port.


	 Erik Talvola

	 talvola@cory.berkeley.edu
	 ...!ucbvax!cory!talvola