MkScript 1.1 by Duane McDonnell <dmcdon@bigfoot.com>
Additional code by Ian Bell <iancgbell@email.com>


DESCRIPTION
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This program generates script files for txtelite version 1.3 or higher
which attempt to generate a given number of credits in the minimum
number of hyperspace jumps. The program was written for Ian Bell's
True Millennium Challenge. The tree searching algorithm used by
MkScript was written in a hurry due to the competition deadline and
could certainly be improved upon (some ideas for improvement are
given in the source code). In addition, the time and memory required
to generate scripts could be reduced too. If you make any significant
improvements to the program (particularly by reducing the number of
jumps required to achieve 1,000,000CR... a jump total of 632 is what
you should be improving upon) please let the author know. The code
is freely distributable and may be modified in any way.


USAGE
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Type the program name without any arguments for usage information.
The generated script file can then be redirected into txtelite.
Note that during tree searching you will be informed as to the
progress of the operation. The progress is printed in the following
format:

jump#. credits

The credits should be viewed as being an approximate gauge only,
although the final credit amount given for the last jump is always
correct and will agree with txtelite. Send a control-C (^C) to
abort script generation.

Amiga users may need to increase their shell stack to about 16K
since automatic stack extension was disabled to improve execution
speed.


ARCHIVE CONTENTS
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readme.txt               This file.
src/mkscript.c           ANSI C source code.
bin/win32/mkscript.exe   Windows (x86) executable.
bin/amiga/mkscript.000   Amiga 68000 executable (integer math).
bin/amiga/mkscript.030   Amiga 68030+ executable (requires FPU).

txtelite is not included in this archive. The latest version can be
obtained from Ian's website (http://www.bigfoot.com/~elite0/).
