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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California. |
| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement | |
| 3 | .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution. | |
| 4 | .\" | |
| bea29141 | 5 | .\" @(#)worms.6 5.1 (Berkeley) %G% |
| 71f88c5b | 6 | .\" |
| bea29141 | 7 | .TH WORMS 6 "1 February 1983" |
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8 | .UC 4 |
| 9 | .SH NAME | |
| 10 | worms \- animate worms on a display terminal | |
| 11 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| bea29141 | 12 | .B /usr/games/worms |
| 71f88c5b | 13 | [ |
| bea29141 | 14 | .B \-field |
| 71f88c5b | 15 | ] [ |
| bea29141 | 16 | .B \-length |
| 71f88c5b | 17 | # ] [ |
| bea29141 | 18 | .B \-number |
| 71f88c5b | 19 | # ] [ |
| bea29141 | 20 | .B \-trail |
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21 | ] |
| 22 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 23 | .ad b | |
| 24 | Brian Horn (cithep!bdh) showed me a | |
| 25 | .I TOPS-20 | |
| 26 | program on the DEC-2136 machine called | |
| 27 | .IR WORM , | |
| 28 | and suggested that I write a similar program that would run under | |
| 29 | .IR Unix . | |
| 30 | I did, and no apologies. | |
| 31 | .PP | |
| bea29141 | 32 | .B \-field |
| 71f88c5b | 33 | makes a "field" for the worm(s) to eat; |
| bea29141 | 34 | .B \-trail |
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35 | causes each worm to leave a trail behind it. You can figure |
| 36 | out the rest by yourself. | |
| 37 | .SH FILES | |
| 38 | /etc/termcap | |
| 39 | .SH AUTHOR | |
| 40 | Eric P. Scott | |
| 41 | .SH SEE ALSO | |
| 42 | .IR Snails , | |
| 43 | by Karl Heuer | |
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44 | .SH BUGS |
| 45 | The lower-right-hand character position will not be updated properly | |
| 46 | on a terminal that wraps at the right margin. | |
| 47 | .PP | |
| 48 | Terminal initialization is not performed. |