README for spoiler.ps generation
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To generate the spoilers, you need a lot of things:

   -  a real awk, like the free AT&T awk, mawk or gawk
   -  xpmtoppm from NETPBM, with _undefined_ PGM_BIGGRAYS in pbmplus.h
   -  pnmtops, pnmscale, pgmtoppm. These can be from the old PBMPLUS.
   -  LaTeX with psfig
   -  dvips
   -  a crossfire binary compiled with DUMP_SWITCHES defined in 
      include/config.h.
   -  the arch.tar file extracted in the Crossfire lib dir.

When you have all this in place, "make" should fix it all... Everytime
you add or change something in the archetype file, generate a new
spoiler file. The Imakefile is pretty good about not doing things
unnecessarily if you don't do "make clean".

The spoiler.ps is now a colour PostScript file. This can be (is) a
problem on old printers, but sorry - a grayscale PostScript spoiler
would require you to compile NETPBM with some hacks. If you are
determined, the code is in the "makeps" script.

The generated PostScript file is very large, but do note that the
0.90.1 spoiler file shrank from 1.6MB to 140kB when compressed with
GNU zip.

			Lars Olafsen <larso@ifi.uio.no>
			Kjetil T. Homme <kjetilho@ifi.uio.no>
