adventure \- an exploration game
The object of the game is to
locate and explore Colossal Cave, find the treasures hidden there,
and bring them back to the building with you.
self-describing to a point, but part of the game is to discover
To terminate a game, type
to save a game for later resumption, type
EOT, or hanging up the phone will all perform a
keeps a log in /usr/games/advlog of each game played.
time a game terminates, a line is appended to that file containing
the user, date, score, and number of turns.
to let you compare scores with fellow adventurers.
Whether or not a game is logged is controlled by a toggle that is examined
Its initial state is "on", to indicate that logging
The command "log" inverts the toggle and reports its new
The "suspend" command results in writing a file named
in your home directory. This file contains the information needed
to restart the game; its presence is checked during initialization to see
if a game is being resumed.
There can be only one suspended game per numeric
simultaneous conflicting suspends can wipe each other out.