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.TH WORMS 6
.UC 4
.SH NAME
worms  \-  animate worms on a display terminal
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B worms
[
.B -field
] [
.B -length
# ] [
.B -number
# ] [
.B -trail
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.ad b
Brian Horn (cithep!bdh) showed me a
.I TOPS-20
program on the DEC-2136 machine called
.IR WORM ,
and suggested that I write a similar program that would run under
.IR Unix .
I did, and no apologies.
.PP
.B -field
makes a "field" for the worm(s) to eat;
.B -trail
causes each worm to leave a trail behind it.  You can figure
out the rest by yourself.
.SH FILES
/etc/termcap
.SH AUTHOR
Eric P. Scott
.SH SEE ALSO
.IR Snails ,
by Karl Heuer
.SH DIAGNOSTICS
Invalid length
.br
       Value not in range  2 <= length <= 1024
.sp
Invalid number of worms
.br
       Value not in range  1 <= number <= 40
.sp
TERM: parameter not set
.br
       The
.B TERM
environment variable is not defined.  Do
.sp
               \fBTERM=\fRterminal type
.br
               \fBexport TERM\fR
.sp
Unknown terminal type
.br
       Your terminal type (as determined from the
.B TERM
environment variable) is not defined in
.BR /etc/termcap .
.sp
Terminal not capable of cursor motion
.br
       Your terminal is too stupid to run this program.
.sp
Out of memory
.br
       This should never happen on a VAX.
.SH BUGS
The lower-right-hand character position will not be updated properly
on a terminal that wraps at the right margin.
.PP
Terminal initialization is not performed.
.PP
There should be an option to have the worms eat
.I Pink Floyd
lyrics.