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1 | .TH WORDS 6 |
| 2 | .SH NAME | |
| 3 | hangman, words \- word games | |
| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 5 | .B /usr/games/hangman | |
| 6 | [ dict ] | |
| 7 | .PP | |
| 8 | .B /usr/games/words | |
| 9 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 10 | .I Hangman | |
| 11 | chooses a word at least seven letters | |
| 12 | long from a word list. | |
| 13 | The user is to guess letters one at a time. | |
| 14 | .PP | |
| 15 | The optional argument | |
| 16 | names an alternate word list. | |
| 17 | The special name `\-a' gets a particular very large | |
| 18 | word list. | |
| 19 | .PP | |
| 20 | .I Words | |
| 21 | prints all the uncapitalized words | |
| 22 | in the word list that can be made from | |
| 23 | letters in | |
| 24 | .I string. | |
| 25 | .SH FILES | |
| 26 | /usr/dict/words the regular word list | |
| 27 | .br | |
| 28 | /crp/dict/web2 the the \-a word list | |
| 29 | .SH DIAGNOSTICS | |
| 30 | After each round, | |
| 31 | .I hangman | |
| 32 | reports the average number of guesses per round | |
| 33 | and the number of rounds. | |
| 34 | .SH BUGS | |
| 35 | Hyphenated compounds are run together. | |
| 36 | .PP | |
| 37 | UNIX software is distributed without | |
| 38 | the \-a word list. |