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GAMES(1)						      General Commands Manual							  GAMES(1)

NAME

       4s, 5s, ana, mandel, plumb, smiley, life, fsim, clock, catclock, fireworks, swar, festoon - time wasters

SYNOPSIS

       games/4s
       games/5s
       games/ana [ fixwords ]
       games/mandel
       games/plumb [ level ]
       games/smiley
       games/life startfile
       games/fsim
       games/clock
       games/catclock [ -c ]
       games/fireworks
       games/swar
       games/festoon [ -p ] [ -e ] [ -t ] [ -sseed ] [ len ] [ pfn ]

DESCRIPTION

       There are a few games in /bin/games:

       4s, 5s	  Try  to  fill  complete rows using 4-square or 5-square tiles.  Move tiles left or right by moving the mouse.  Rotate tiles with
		  buttons 1 and 3.  Drop tiles for more points with button 2 or the space bar.

       ana	  Find anagrams for words typed on standard input.  Anagrams can contain several dictionary words.  The fixwords argument or  num-
		  bers typed on standard input fix the number of words in the output anagrams.

       mandel	  Compute and display Mandelbrot sets.	Menus on the mouse buttons control various things.

       plumb	  Build  a  plumbing  system.  Keep ahead of the advancing oil and don't waste pipe. The level argument lets you start at a harder
		  level.

       smiley	  A game of historical importance.  Type space to shoot, comma to move left, and period to go right.

       life	  Play the game of life, given an initial position.  There is a library of interesting initial positions; the library is consulted
		  if startfile cannot be found.

       fsim	  Pretend you're flying a Cessna.

       clock, catclock
		  Display analog clocks.  Option -c makes catclock crosseyed.

       fireworks  Hoist the fiery blue peter.

       swar	  Space  war  for two players called MCI and SPRINT.  One player types a or d to turn left or right, s to shoot, x to enter hyper-
		  space, and w to accelerate.  The other player uses ;, l, .  and o.  AT&T scores whenever either ship shoots itself or  otherwise
		  causes mayhem.  Hyperspace is occasionally fatal.

       festoon	  Traditional  radical	monoarchate qualitativeness. Now produces pictures (-p), tables (-t), and equations (-e).  The seed can be
		  set to recreate a specific document.	Len is sentence length, and pfn is percent faked nouns (default 0).

FILES

       /sys/games/lib/4scores
	      scores of 4s games

       /sys/games/lib/5scores
	      scores of 5s games

       /sys/games/lib/plumb/scores
	      scores of plumb games

       /sys/games/lib/anawords
	      used by ana

       /sys/games/lib/plumb/*
	      miscellaneous files used by plumb

       /sys/games/lib/life/*
	      interesting starting positions

SOURCE

       /sys/src/games

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DM.CONF(5)						      BSD File Formats Manual							DM.CONF(5)

NAME

     dm.conf -- dungeon master configuration file

DESCRIPTION

     The dm.conf file is the configuration file for the dm(8) program.	It consists of lines beginning with one of three keywords, badtty, game,
     and time.	All other lines are ignored.

     Any tty listed after the keyword badtty may not have games played on it.  Entries consist of two white-space separated fields: the string
     badtty and the ttyname as returned by ttyname(3).	For example, to keep the uucp dialout, ``tty19'', from being used for games, the entry
     would be:

	   badtty  /dev/tty19

     Any day/hour combination listed after the keyword time will disallow games during those hours.  Entries consist of four white-space separated
     fields: the string time, the unabbreviated day of the week and the beginning and ending time of a period of the day when games may not be
     played.  The time fields are in a 0 based, 24-hour clock.	For example, the following entry allows games playing before 8AM and after 5PM on
     Mondays:

	   time    Monday  8	   17

     Any game listed after the keyword game will set parameters for a specific game.  Entries consist of five white-space separated fields: the
     keyword game, the name of a game, the highest system load average at which the game may be played, the maximum users allowed if the game is
     to be played, and the priority at which the game is to be run.  Any of these fields may start with a non-numeric character, resulting in no
     game limitation or priority based on that field.

     The game default controls the settings for any game not otherwise listed, and must be the last game entry in the file.  Priorities may not be
     negative.	For example, the following entries limits the game ``hack'' to running only when the system has 10 or less users and a load aver-
     age of 5 or less; all other games may be run any time the system has 15 or less users.

	   game    hack 	   5	   10	   *
	   game    default	   *	   15	   *

FILES

     /etc/dm.conf  The dm(8) configuration file.

SEE ALSO

     setpriority(2), ttyname(3), dm(8)

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								   May 31, 1993 							       BSD

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