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1 | .TH ZORK 6 |
| 2 | .UC 4 | |
| 3 | .SH NAME | |
| 4 | zork \- the game of dungeon | |
| 5 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 6 | .B /usr/games/zork | |
| 7 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 8 | .I Dungeon | |
| 9 | is a computer fantasy simulation based on Adventure and on | |
| 10 | Dungeons & Dragons, originally written by Lebling, Blank, | |
| 11 | and Anderson of MIT. | |
| 12 | In it you explore a dungeon made up of | |
| 13 | various rooms, caves, rivers, and so on. | |
| 14 | The object of the game is to collect as much treasure as possible | |
| 15 | and stow it safely in the trophy case (and, of course, to stay alive.) | |
| 16 | .PP | |
| 17 | Figuring out the rules is part of the game, but if you are stuck, | |
| 18 | you should start off with \*(lqopen mailbox\*(rq, \*(lqtake leaflet\*(rq, and then | |
| 19 | \*(lqread leaflet\*(rq. | |
| 20 | Additional useful commands that are not documented include: | |
| 21 | .PP | |
| 22 | quit (to end the game) | |
| 23 | .PP | |
| 24 | !cmd (the usual shell escape convention) | |
| 25 | .PP | |
| 26 | > (to save a game) | |
| 27 | .PP | |
| 28 | < (to restore a game) | |
| 29 | .SH FILES | |
| 30 | /usr/games/lib/d* | |
| 31 | .SH BUGS | |
| 32 | We don't have the source, only a pdp-11 binary that has been severely | |
| 33 | munged to get it to work on V7 Unix. | |
| 34 | (The original binary was for RSX-11, which was patched for V6, | |
| 35 | and then patched for V7.) |