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Basically I want to get a private MUSH running on my own computer, with only one other person able to connect to it. Just a little place for the both of us.

I've looked for all the help on the internet and even looked at http://www.gammon.com.au/pennmush/installingpennmush.htm. But I am not making progress.

I download a binary, go through all the steps, edit the mushcnf. But after that I always get stumped. I can't find the data disk compression script in the config file.

Or I can't find the minimal.db file in data.

After spending many minutes trying to figure out how to get pennmush running on Cygwin, and many many more minutes asking the good folks of +hardcode @M*U*S*H, I have succeeded in making it run, connecting to it, and creating a batch file that can be placed in the windows startup folder or otherwise utilized to make it start without actually having to open a cygwin window.

Here's how:
This assumes you've installed cygwin to C:\cygwin. If not, replace path information as necessary.

A partial list of the larger changes I want to get into Penn someday.

I have created the command +roll, which simulates rolling a dice by using the rand() function. I know it works because when I change think for say I get the result. however I want to be able to use this in other commands so just saying the number won't do much good. I need the command to work from within another command.
I have attacked some code snippets below. these are, of corse, what I belive to be correct. It may be that I am takeing a completely wrong approach to this.

just roll and 'return' the result
ROLLADICE [#5]: $+roll *:think rand(1,%0)

I am trying to make a machine that gives wizards free money to create stuff. I can make sure that the machine is regularly 'topped up' with a supply of money. however it does not seem to be working. here is my current code:

&givemoney money = $freemoney:@force me=give %n = 50

when I run the command nothing happens, I don't get the standard
'Huh? (Type "help" for help.)'
response, just nothing.

Is it possible to change the name of an exit without deleting it and re-creating it?

Is it possible to change the destination of an exit without removeing it?

Corpolitick 2.2 - The Game of Organizational Dominance(TM)(R)(C)

In the not-too-distant future, power is forged, wielded, shattered, reforged, sharpened, wielded again, broken again, and hung on the wall as a Relic of Mystery by Organizations, ranging from tiny partnerships to mammoth multicontinent corporations, from strange clans to stranger nonprofit NGOs, from Amalgamated Marketing Marketing ("We only sell salesmen who sell salesmen") to PhytoCarn Products ("Animal-based health food for plants") to Geeks'R'Us to Walt-You-Will-Have-Fun-Corporate-World.

Blood of Dragons is set in the low-magic, medieval-inspired fantasy world of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. Knowledge of the books is not required for players with some MU*ing experience, though it is definitely helpful.

The game takes place 140 years prior to the start of the first book, A Game of Thrones. The end of King Daeron's campaign in Dorne is fast approaching, and this weekend Blood of Dragons MUSH will be hosting two high-profile events that constitute the climax of the Conquest of Dorne:

I'm a system admin who is hosting three seperate mushes on a win32 precompiled environment. Until know I've started them off using a batch file that one of the mush owners made. It basically does this:

"c:\Program Files\mushes\game 1\pennmush\game\"pennmush /run
"c:\Program Files\mushes\game 2\pennmush\game\"pennmush /run
"c:\Program Files\mushes\game 3\pennmush\game\"pennmush /run
cmd