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Cubes should compile and run on just about any type of BSD UNIX machine.  No
attempt has been made to make cubes work on non-BSD machines.

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The game of cubes is a dice game played with five dice.  The server supplies
competition in the form of robot players, but also allows for multiple human
players via use of BSD networking facilities.

Players take turns rolling the dice.  Points are scored by rolling one or more
scoring combinations.  Any time a roll fails to produce at least one scoring
combination, that player's turn is over and no points are added to his/her/its
score.  Each time a roll produces one or more scoring combinations, the player
has the choice to hold or roll again.  If the player holds, his/her/its turn
is over and the sum of points accumulated during the turn are added to the
player's score.

The first player to reach 10,000 points is declared the winner and the game
ends.  At that point, the score of each player is recorded in the score file.

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There are two pieces to cubes: the server and the client.  To install the
server, you probably need root privileges on your machine.  The Makefile
contains comments that should help you with installing.  Also, check the
manual page cubeserver.6 that comes with this distribution, as it contains
information about installing and configuring cubes.  The file cubes.h contains
some configuration parameters, but, in general, you should not have need to
modify them.

This is version 5.1 of cubes.  It is not backward compatible with previous
versions of server or client.  Also, the score file format has changed.  If you
are currently running cubes 4.1, then the histconv.sh script supplied with
this distribution can be used to convert your score file to 5.1 format.

In some form or another, cubes has been running at the author's location for
almost a year.  The last source code changes were made to cubes in January
1989.  Therefore, I think (and hope) you'll find cubes quite mature and
relatively bug free.

I'm happy to receive bug reports and suggestions for improvements to cubes.
Patches are welcomed.  Please send such to:

	Greg Paris <gmp@rayssd.ray.com>
	{decuac,necntc,sun,uiucdcs,ukma}!rayssd!gmp

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The source code for cubes may be freely redistributed, which is to say that
the cubes source code is not for sale or resale.

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Greg Paris
April 25, 1989