To use this, quickly:

1) Unpack this tarball.
2) Edit mods/BF1942/Settings/ServerSettings.con
3) Run the server. It doesn't have to be run as root. However, it DOES need
   to be run from the directory where it's installed, and it wants write
   access to that directory.
4) Subscribe to the mailing list: to do so, send a blank email to
   bf1942-subscribe@icculus.org ... discussion of server problems will occur
   there, so it will  be in your best interest to subscribe.
5) Bug reports go to https://bugzilla.icculus.org/ ... there is a Battlefield
   1942 component in the bugtracking system. This is ONLY for bug reports
   and requests on the Linux version! Win32 bugs will be marked "invalid"!


WARNING: THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE. Do not run it on production systems if it's
important for it to be stable at this time. We appreciate your patience and
well-worded bug reports.

Known issues:
- If you see the message "STUB: Hope this isn't important" and such, disregard
  them. STUB messages are harmless debugging reminders for the developers and
  will go away in a later version.
- If you see "(0): Error: : 1Failed to load", disregard it. This is a harmless
  message, too.
- The "Couldn't open flat archive file "Mods/BF1942/Archives/sound.rfa""
  message is safe, too; there's no sound or textures in the dedicated-only
  version.
- Likewise, there's a lot of scripting warnings about missing sound/video
  functionality. Ignore them.
- In fact, ignore anything written to your screen.  :)


This version will refuse to run after about 30 days. There will be a new
version well before that. The final non-beta version will not expire, and
can be found at http://bf1942.ea.com/ when it is available.


Credits and thank yous:

DICE:
  - Lots of people, but specifically:
  - Mats
  - Mattias
  - Johan
  - Patrick
  - Lars

EA:
  - Ken Balthasar
  - Jamil Dawsari

SCG:
  - Jesper Jensen

Me:
  - Ryan C. Gordon  (http://icculus.org/)

Thank you to everyone involved!

Have fun,
--ryan.

