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chapter 1 "Introduction"
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If you are unfamiliar with LPC based muds in general or Dead Souls
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mudlib in particular, you will find this handbook valuable in
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orienting you around what you can do and how you can do it.
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Keep in mind that this handbook describes the features of a mud
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running an unmodifed version of the lib. The mud you are on may
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differ somewhat, though probably not extremely so.
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To advance a page in a chapter, just hit "return".
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Let's start with just navigating this book. Once you are done
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reading this chapter, you can read the next chapter by typing:
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%^GREEN%^read chapter 2 in handbook%^RESET%^
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Make sure you wait until you are done reading this chapter,
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though. The reason you should wait is that you are now in "reading
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mode", which means that anything you type and send to the mud
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is actually a command to the editing system that is displaying this
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text.
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To leave reading mode (or more accurately, pager, or ed mode)
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you can hit "return" a bunch of times to complete the chapter, thus
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automatically exiting the pager. Another way is to enter the
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letter "q" (without the quotes) and then "return". That will also
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make you stop reading.
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When you are not in reading mode, you can find out the chapter
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titles by typing:
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%^GREEN%^read index in handbook%^RESET%^
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You really should read the whole thing, but in case you don't, the
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chapter titles will help as a reference to find the information you
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need.
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Something to watch out for is that if you or your environment
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contain another handbook, the mud may not know which one you are
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trying to read. If you get a message like "Which of the two handbooks
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would you like to read?", you can try one or more of the following:
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%^GREEN%^read index in first handbook%^RESET%^
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%^GREEN%^read index in my handbook%^RESET%^
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%^GREEN%^read index in my first player handbook%^RESET%^
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