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I second that notion. There's no point to moving the BSDs over to a distribution-style ideology. They're fine as complete operating systems.
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makeweights
MAKEWEIGHTS(6) Games Manual MAKEWEIGHTS(6)
NAME
makeweights - generate a GNU Backgammon binary weights file
SYNOPSIS
makeweights [[-f] output [input]]
DESCRIPTION
makeweights generates GNU Backgammon binary weights file from a text input file. By default, it reads input from standard input and writes
output to standard output, but input and output files may be specified on the command line. It is only of interest if you want to regener-
ate the gnubg.wd database from a modified gnubg.weights file.
OPTIONS
-f This option may be given for compatibility with the options of other GNU Backgammon programs but is ignored.
EXAMPLES
To generate gnubg.wd from gnubg.weights:
makeweights gnubg.wd gnubg.weights
SEE ALSO
gnubg(6)
AUTHORS
Joseph Heled, Oystein Johansen, Jorn Thyssen, and Gary Wong, with the assistance of many others <bug-gnubg@gnu.org>.
This manual page was written by Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). It may be
redistributed and/or modified under the terms of version 3 or later of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation (the same license as GNU Backgammon).
2008-02-16 MAKEWEIGHTS(6)