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Rogue V5: remove troublesome automatic platform detection. configure.ac used AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM to guess the GNU system description triplets. The target description was substituted into the Makefile and formatted into the filename for the binary distribution tarball. But 'target' is only intended for cross-compilers. 'host_os' might have been a better choice. The tarball filename can still be changed manually, by running make with an argument of 'DESTSYS=systemname'. Cross-compiling may be more difficult now, but I am not certain that it worked properly previously, and due to pending autoconf changes, it was likely to break anyway. The top-level config.guess and config.sub are no longer needed, but they may reappear if better support for cross-compilation is added.
author John "Elwin" Edwards
date Fri, 12 Feb 2016 14:25:47 -0500
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<h1 align=center>ROGUE 3.6</h1>

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<h2>NAME</h2>
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	<p>rogue3 &minus; Exploring The Dungeons of Doom</p>
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<h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
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	<p><b>rogue3</b> [ -s ] [ <i>save_file</i> ] [ -n <i>playername</i> ]</p>
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<h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
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	<p align="justify"><u>Rogue</u> 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.</p>

	<p align="justify">To get started you really only need to know two commands. 
	The command ? will give you a list of the available commands and the command /
	will identify the things you see on the screen.</p>

	<p align="justify">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.</p>

	<p align="justify">When the game ends, either by your death, when you quit, 
	or if you (by some miracle) manage to win, <u>rogue</u> 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.</p>

	<p align="justify">For more detailed directions, read the document <u>A Guide 
	to the Dungeons of Doom</u>.</p>

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<h2>OPTIONS</h2>
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	<p align="justify">If a <i>save_file</i> argument is given, <u>rogue</u> will attempt 
	to load  a  previously saved game from that file.</p>
	<p align="justify">With  the  <b>-n</b>  option,  <u>rogue</u> will load a game with the 
	name <i>playername</i> from a location defined at compile time.  If no such
	game  exists,  it will start one.</p>
	<p align="justify">The <b>-s</b> option prints the top-ten scores list and exits.</p>
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<h2>FILES</h2>
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	<table border="0" id="table1">
		<tr>
			<td>/usr/local/games/roguelike/rogue3.scr</td>
			<td width="50">&nbsp;</td>
			<td>Score file</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>~/rogue3.save</td>
			<td>&nbsp;</td>
			<td>Default save file</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>/usr/local/games/roguelike/rogue3save</td>
			<td>&nbsp;</td>
			<td>System savefiles</td>
		</tr>
	</table>
</blockquote>

<h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
<p>Michael C. Toy, <u>A Guide to the Dungeons of Doom</u></p>

<h2>BUGS</h2>
<p>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.</p>

<h2>COPYRIGHT</h2>
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.

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