INTRODUCTION

HuaRongDao is an ancient Chinese game.  The rules are very easy to
understand, but the game is not so easy to solve.

The aim of the game is to move pieces in order to free the largest
one from the bottom side of the board, with as few steps as possible.
You may not make one piece jump over another, nor can any two
pieces overlap.  Continuously moving one piece is counted as a single
step.


INSTALL

This program should compile and run on most recent Unix systems.
The following systems are tested: Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD,
Solaris, and OSX.

You need a curses library to run the program.  And you need the
curses developers' library and a C++ compiler to compile the program.

You should be able to install the program with the following steps.
        ./configure
        make

This will build an executable called "hrd".  You may run the following
command to install the program.

        make install (with root permission)

You may also install it to another place by passing "--prefix=/path/to/dir"
to the "./configure" command.  Run "./configure --help" for more options.


USAGE
       The following commands are supported by this program.

       0-9    Make the desired piece selected.  The peice is then moved by one
              or two direction letter: l for LEFT, r for RIGHT, u for UP, or d
              for DOWN. Normally the arrow keys can also be used as the direc-
              tion command.

       q      Quit the game.

       u      Undo one step.

       r      Redo one step.

       b      Save a bookmark.  A single letter is prompted  as  the  bookmark
              slot, supported letters are a-z, A-Z, or 0-9.

       l      Load from a bookmark.  A bookmark slot is prompted.

       Ctrl-C can be used to cancel the current command.  ENTER can be used to
       reset the prompt and echo area.


INFORMATION

The HuaRongDao project is hosted by SourceForge.net, at http://hrd.sf.net/.
You can find more information and newest version there.


COPYRIGHT

hrd -- The puzzle game: HuaRongDao -- http://hrd.sourceforge.net/
Copyright (C) 2004 by Qingning Huo <qhuo@users.sourceforge.net>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

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.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
