First and foremost, understand that Fernandotel is unmaintained public domain hackerware.

The only dependency is notcurses.  For Gentoo, 'emerge notcurses' should be enough.  In Debian you'll need libnotcurses-dev.

Try "make" and see how that works out for you.

Fernandotel is compatible with Murder Motel 4.6 .map files.  These are simple QuickBasic style CSV's.  You can bring in your old Murder Motel maps and explore them with 'testmap example.map'  The bundled fernandotel.map was created from scratch and is public domain.

Fernandotel is not compatible with Murder Motel .mmi files.

The 'testmap' program can be used to create a blank map (simply pass a .map file that doesn't exist as the first argument), (C)reate new exits to an existing room, or (M)odify an existing room's description.  Changes aren't saved until you (Q)uit testmap.

If you run fernandotel without any arguments, it will prompt the end user for a username and password.  Passing the '-u' argument allows you to specify a user (in which case, no password is asked for or needed).  This is used if you're intending to run Fernandotel on a modern BBS.

BE AWARE that no encryption is used anywhere, not even for storing user passwords.

Fernandotel expects to be executed from the directory containing the various data files (.map, .csv, et al.)  It will vomit files to your pwd with impunity.  You've been warned.

-Cyan.
