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1.1 root 1: .TH HACK 6 "31 March 1985"
2: .UC 4
3: .SH NAME
4: hack \- Exploring The Dungeons of Doom
5: .SH SYNOPSIS
6: .B /usr/games/hack
7: [
8: .B \-d
9: .I directory
10: ]
11: [
12: .B \-n
13: ]
14: [
15: .B \-u
16: .I playername
17: ]
18: .br
19: .B /usr/games/hack
20: [
21: .B \-d
22: .I directory
23: ]
24: .B \-s
25: [
26: .B \-X
27: ]
28: [
29: .I playernames
30: ]
31: .SH DESCRIPTION
32: .PP
33: .I Hack
34: is a display oriented dungeons & dragons - like game.
35: Both display and command structure resemble rogue.
36: (For a game with the same structure but entirely different display -
37: a real cave instead of dull rectangles - try Quest.)
38: .PP
39: To get started you really only need to know two commands. The command
40: .B ?
41: will give you a list of the available commands and the command
42: .B /
43: will identify the things you see on the screen.
44: .PP
45: To win the game (as opposed to merely playing to beat other people high
46: scores) you must locate the Amulet of Yendor which is somewhere below
47: the 20th level of the dungeon and get it out. Nobody has achieved this
48: yet and if somebody does, he will probably go down in history as a hero
49: among heros.
50: .PP
51: When the game ends, either by your death, when you quit, or if you escape
52: from the caves,
53: .I hack
54: will give you (a fragment of) the list of top scorers. The scoring
55: is based on many aspects of your behaviour but a rough estimate is
56: obtained by taking the amount of gold you've found in the cave plus four
57: times your (real) experience. Precious stones may be worth a lot of gold
58: when brought to the exit.
59: There is a 10% penalty for getting yourself killed.
60: .PP
61: The administration of the game is kept in the directory specified with the
62: .B \-d
63: option, or, if no such option is given, in the directory specified by
64: the environment variable HACKDIR, or, if no such variable exists, in
65: the current directory. This same directory contains several auxiliary
66: files such as lockfiles and the list of topscorers and a subdirectory
67: .I save
68: where games are saved.
69: The game administrator may however choose to install hack with a fixed
70: playing ground, usually /usr/games/lib/hackdir.
71: .PP
72: The
73: .B \-n
74: option suppresses printing of the news.
75: .PP
76: The
77: .B \-u
78: .I playername
79: option supplies the answer to the question "Who are you?".
80: When
81: .I playername
82: has as suffix one of
83: .B \-T \-S \-K \-F \-C \-W
84: then this supplies the answer to the question "What kind of character ... ?".
85: .PP
86: The
87: .B \-s
88: option will print out the list of your scores. It may be followed by arguments
89: .B \-X
90: where X is one of the letters C, F, K, S, T, W to print the scores of
91: Cavemen, Fighters, Knights, Speleologists, Tourists or Wizards.
92: It may also be followed by one or more player names to print the scores of the
93: players mentioned.
94: .SH AUTHORS
95: Jay Fenlason (+ Kenny Woodland, Mike Thome and Jon Payne) wrote the
96: original hack, very much like rogue (but full of bugs).
97: .br
98: Andries Brouwer continuously deformed their sources into the current
99: version - in fact an entirely different game.
100: .SH FILES
101: .DT
102: .ta \w'data, rumors\ \ \ 'u
103: hack The hack program.
104: .br
105: data, rumors Data files used by hack.
106: .br
107: help, hh Help data files.
108: .br
109: record The list of topscorers.
110: .br
111: save A subdirectory containing the saved
112: .br
113: games.
114: .br
115: bones_dd Descriptions of the ghost and
116: .br
117: belongings of a deceased adventurer.
118: .br
119: xlock.dd Description of a dungeon level.
120: .br
121: safelock Lock file for xlock.
122: .br
123: record_lock Lock file for record.
124: .SH ENVIRONMENT
125: .DT
126: .ta \w'HACKPAGER, PAGER\ \ \ 'u
127: USER or LOGNAME Your login name.
128: .br
129: HOME Your home directory.
130: .br
131: SHELL Your shell.
132: .br
133: TERM The type of your terminal.
134: .br
135: HACKPAGER, PAGER Pager used instead of default pager.
136: .br
137: MAIL Mailbox file.
138: .br
139: MAILREADER Reader used instead of default
140: .br
141: (probably /bin/mail or /usr/ucb/mail).
142: .br
143: HACKDIR Playground.
144: .br
145: HACKOPTIONS String predefining several hack options
146: .br
147: (see help file).
148: .br
149:
150: Several other environment variables are used in debugging (wizard) mode,
151: like GENOCIDED, INVENT, MAGIC and SHOPTYPE.
152: .SH BUGS
153: .PP
154: Probably infinite.
155: Mail complaints to mcvax!aeb .
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