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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users remove lines from file where > 13 occurrences of character Post 302286100 by vgersh99 on Tuesday 10th of February 2009 10:11:59 AM
Old 02-10-2009
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Originally Posted by kpd
Thanks JoeyG. I appreciate your time. I know it was a dumb question but we don't have any Unix knowledge here. If it looks Greek and you don't speak Greek, ask a Greek. Maybe we can get vgersh99 to come and hold our hands, he seems like a very patient teacher
... only for the willing to be taught Greek students!
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

gltron

GLTRON(6)							   Games Manual 							 GLTRON(6)

NAME

       gltron - a tron-like 3D lightcycle game

SYNOPSIS

       gltron [[-FftwbghcCsk1234simo]

DESCRIPTION

       glTron is a tron-like lightcycle game with a nice 3D perspective 3D acceleration is recommended.

       More information can be found at the gltron web site http://www.gltron.org/

PROBLEMS

       If the game refuses to start up, check your hardware settings and that the necessary libraries are installed.

       If the options are messed up, remove ~/.gltronrc and try again.

       Anything else check TODO, known bugs on the website, and lastly ask in #gltron on irc.freenode.net.

OPTIONS

       Valid command line options:

       -O     enable software optimizations, useful if your card doesn't have OpenGL acceleration. For best results combine with -t and -1.

       -f     fast finish after human has crashed

       -F     don't display FPS counter

       -t     don't display floor texture, use lines instead (huge speed gain)

       -w     don't display walls (speed gain)

       -x     don't show crash texture (speed gain)

       -g     don't show glows (small speed gain)

       -c     don't show ai status

       -C     show ai status (default: on)

       -1     set resolution to 320x240

       -2     set resolution to 640x480 (default)

       -3     set resolution to 800x600

       -4     set resolution to 1024x768

       -s     don't play sound

       -h     help

AUTHOR

       Updated with PROBLEMS section by Countersync <countersync@hotmail.com> before submission to upstream source.

       This  manual  page  was	 written   by  Jeronimo  Pellegrini <pellegrini@mpcnet.com.br>, based on the information in the package by Raphael
       Bossek, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

								    2001-06-10								 GLTRON(6)
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