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rogue3: begin porting to autoconf. Rogue V3 can now be built with './configure && make'. This is preliminary: 'make install' does not work yet.
author John "Elwin" Edwards
date Sat, 24 Aug 2013 13:36:13 -0700
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+.TH ROGUE 6
+.UC
+.SH NAME
+rogue \- Exploring The Dungeons of Doom
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B @PROGRAM@
+[ -s ]
+[
+.I save_file
+]
+[ -n
+.I playername
+]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.PP
+.I Rogue
+is a computer fantasy game with a new twist.  It is crt oriented and the
+object of the game is to survive the attacks of various monsters and get
+a lot of gold, rather than the puzzle solving orientation of most computer
+fantasy games.
+.PP
+To get started you really only need to know two commands.  The command
+.B ?
+will give you a list of the available commands and the command
+.B /
+will identify the things you see on the screen.
+.PP
+To win the game (as opposed to merely playing to beat other people's high
+scores) you must locate the Amulet of Yendor which is somewhere below
+the 20th level of the dungeon and get it out.  Nobody has achieved this
+yet and if somebody does, they will probably go down in history as a hero
+among heros.
+.PP
+When the game ends, either by your death, when you quit, or if you (by
+some miracle) manage to win,
+.I rogue
+will give you a list of the top-ten scorers.  The scoring is based entirely
+upon how much gold you get.  There is a 10% penalty for getting yourself
+killed.
+.PP
+For more detailed directions, read the document
+.I "A Guide to the Dungeons of Doom."
+.SH OPTIONS
+.PP
+If a
+.I save_file
+argument is given,
+.I rogue
+will attempt to load a previously saved game from that file.
+.PP
+With the
+.B -n
+option,
+.I rogue
+will load a game with the name
+.I playername
+from a location defined at compile time.  If no such game exists, it will 
+start one.
+.PP
+The
+.B -s
+option prints the top-ten scores list and exits.
+
+.SH FILES
+.ta 2i
+@SCOREFILE@   Score file
+.br
+~/rogue3.save                           Default save file
+.br
+/usr/local/games/roguelike/rogue3save   System savefiles
+.DT
+.SH SEE ALSO
+Michael C. Toy,
+.I "A Guide to the Dungeons of Doom"
+.SH BUGS
+.PP
+Probably infinite.  Currently known bugs are: Sometimes you are still hungry
+even after you eat food and sometimes you get a monster on the screen in
+reverse video which may or may not cause a core dump.
+.SH COPYRIGHT
+Rogue: Exploring the Dungeons of Doom
+.br
+Copyright (C) 1980, 1981 Michael Toy, Ken Arnold and Glenn Wichman
+.br
+All rights reserved.
+.br
+License: 3-clause BSD, see LICENSE.txt for details.