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O S flavours ...which is which

Does anyone know how to find out what flavour of Unix "Data General" is closest too.. heres what I need to do, I need to install one of the available free flavours on my Intel Pc at home, So as I can transfer all my shell scripts over without the need for re-working them...but I have no idea how to find out...I heard of people talking about porting from one to another, but I really don't think I'd be very good at that, unless there was specific instructions somewhere I would probably mess things up, so basically I just want to install a free and then ftp over the scripts from Data General -unix to what ever is the closest match...

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goplay

GOPLAY(1)						      General Commands Manual							 GOPLAY(1)

NAME

       goplay - Debian game browser

SYNOPSIS

       goplay [options] [options and arguments]

DESCRIPTION

       GoPlay! is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that uses DebTags for finding games in Debian easily.

OPTIONS

       This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').

       Help options:

       -h, -?, --help
	      print commandline help and exit.

       --version
	      print the program version and exit.

       --manpage=[hooks]
	      output the goplay manpage and exit.

       Other options:

       -v, --verbose
	      enable verbose output.

       --debug
	      enable debugging output (including verbose output).

       --go=where
	      change the interface flavour. Available flavours are: play, learn, admin, net, office, safe, web, science.

       --primary=facet
	      use the given facet instead of 'games'.

       --secondary=facet
	      use the given facet instead of 'interface'.

       --ftags=tags
	      comma-separated list of tags that are always required in search results (default: role::program).

AUTHOR

       goplay is maintained by Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> and Miriam Ruiz <little_miry@yahoo.es>.

       This manpage has been automatically generated by the goplay program.

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