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HLMaster readme last updated Saturday, 22. December 2001

Function and purpose ::...............................................

HLMaster implements a fully functional, automatic master-server
daemon for the game Half-life (and all mods based on this engine).

Because the master-server protocol is not open, I had to figure
it out myself. Some features might not be implemented, some may
be 'wrong'. However, all basically required features should work.

I have tested hlmaster with the following query-tools:

  o GameSpy  - http://www.gamespy.com
  o QStat    - http://www.qstat.org


If you encounter any problems with any query tool, please
send an e-mail to bullet@users.sourceforge.net.

Note: Current versions of gamespy are incapable of receiving more
      than 230 gameservers from hlmaster. This limitation comes
      from GameSpy, not hlmaster (GameSpy is using an old protocol).

Check http://hlmaster.sourceforge.net for newest version.

Documentation ::......................................................

Documentation is provided within the 'doc' directory. On Linux,
the manfiles are installed by 'make install' as well.

Additionally, there is an html version of the manfiles in the
doc/html directory.

Please note: The documentation might not allways be up to date.

Additional files ::...................................................

  o COPYING       License information.
  o AUTHORS       List of authors working on this project.
  o NEWS          Human readable list of major changes.
  o ChangeLog     Raw list of changes.
  o TODO          List of unimplemented features.
  o INSTALL       Basic installation instructions.

Example files ::......................................................

These files should be found in the 'examples' directory.

  o woncomm.lst   A sample master configuration for half-life.
  o server.list   A sample gameserver list for hlmaster.
  o filter.list   A sample gameserver filter list for hlmaster.


Check the documentation for more information.

Copyright (c) 2001 Silvan Minghetti

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

Half-Life is a trademark of valve software.