An Interactive Story You have downloaded the Interactive Story program written by Valerie Mates, valerie@cyberspace.org 1/15/98. This program is freeware, but, if you use it, please leave my URL in the page footer and send me an email message to let me know that you are using it. I'm curious about where my programs travel to. Thanks! Installation instructions: ========================= You should have the following files: story.cgi - The story program itself. storyconfig - A text file with configuration for the story. five .gif files - The arrows and logo for the story. README - This file. You probably downloaded this file as story.tar.gz. Here's how to set it up: 1) Uncompress the story files by typing: gunzip story.tar.gz and then tar xvf story.tar You can then delete story.tar if you like. 2) Put story.cgi and storyconfig in your cgi-bin directory. 3) Check the permissions on story.cgi. It needs to be runnable. The command to do this is chmod 755 story.cgi 4) Create a directory for the story chapters to be stored in. It needs to be writeable by your web server. The default way to do this is to go to your cgi-bin directory and type mkdir story and chown nobody story assuming your web server runs as user "nobody". If your web server runs with some other user ID, change the file ownership of the directory to that other ID instead of "nobody". 5) Put the gifs in a web visible directory. 6) Edit storyconfig to set $story_dir to the *name* of the directory with the story data files and $image_url to the *URL* of the gif files. And set $host_url to your own web page, so people can find you from the "about" screen. 7) Send me e-mail so I know where the story is running. I'm curious! I'll be happy to add your story to the list of story sites. Have fun! Yell if you run into anything on it that doesn't work. -Valerie Mates, valerie@cyberspace.org, 3/21/98