Title:        Game Regulator
Version:      1.0
Submitted:    Dec 1 1986
Author:       talcott!usc-oberon.ARPA:mcooper
Submittor:    talcott!usc-oberon.ARPA:mcooper
Description:  

        GR is used to regulate game playing.  It checks various system
facts such as the number of logged in users, and the system load average
against a central control file to determine whether it is okay to play
a requested game.  It also lets you select a priority (see setpriority(2))
at which the game will run.  See the (enclosed) manual for more details.

        GR was formerly called "gsh" from which the base code was written
at Reed College by a person who wishes to remain anonymous.  I "adopted"
it and have extensively modified the code.  

        We are currently running GR on 4 of our VAX 750's running 4.2BSD.
I suspect that the code should run without problems under 4.3BSD.  As for
System V, I'm sure some minimal modifications will have to be made, but
as yet, I have not tried porting it.

        To install GR, edit gr.h and Makefile to tailor to your system.
The comments supplied therein, should suffice.  Then run "make gr" to
compile GR.  You should have no errors.  Now edit the "gr.control" file
to set your local system parameters.  Next run "make create" to 
create the appropriate directory and support files.  Run "make dolink"
if you wish to have most of the standard 4.2 games put under the regulator;
otherwise, you can link them by hand.

        I'd appreciate any bugs/comments you wish to pass along.

                                        Mike Cooper