hangman(6) [netbsd man page]

HANGMAN(6)							 BSD Games Manual							HANGMAN(6)

NAME

     hangman -- computer version of the game hangman

SYNOPSIS

     hangman [-d wordlist] [-m minlen]

DESCRIPTION

     In hangman, the computer picks a word from the on-line word list and you must try to guess it.  The computer keeps track of which letters
     have been guessed and how many wrong guesses you have made on the screen in a graphic fashion.

OPTIONS

     -d    Use the specified wordlist instead of the default one named below.

     -m    Set the minimum word length to use.	The default is 6 letters.

FILES

     /usr/share/dict/words  On-line word list

AUTHORS

     Ken Arnold

BSD
								   May 31, 1993 							       BSD

american-english(5)						   Users' Manual					       american-english(5)

NAME

       american-english - a list of English words

DESCRIPTION

       /usr/share/dict/american-english is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per line.

FILES

       There  may  be  any  number  of	word lists in /usr/share/dict/.  /etc/dictionaries-common/words is a symbolic link to the currently-chosen
       /usr/share/dict/<language> file.  /usr/share/dict/words is a symbolic link to /etc/dictionaries-common/words, and  is  the  name  by  which
       other  software should refer to the system word list.  See select-default-wordlist(8) for more information, and/or to change the currently-
       chosen word list.

       The directory /usr/share/dict can contain word lists for many languages, with name of the language in English, e.g., /usr/share/dict/french
       and  /usr/share/dict/danish  contain respectively lists of French and Danish words if they exist.  Such lists should be coded using the ISO
       8859-1 character set encoding.

SEE ALSO

       ispell(1), select-default-wordlist(8), and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.

HISTORY

       The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number of sources.

       The system word list used to be /usr/dict/words.  For compatibility, software should check that location if /usr/share/dict/words does  not
       exist.

AUTHOR

       Word  lists  are  collected and maintained by various authors.  The Debian English word lists are built from the SCOWL (Spell- Checker Ori-
       ented Word Lists) package, whose upstream editor is Kevin Atkinson <kevina@users.sourceforge.net>.

Debian								   16 June 2003 					       american-english(5)