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.TH DOPEWARS 6
.SH NAME
dopewars \- drug dealing game
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B dopewars
.I "[OPTIONS] ..."
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.B dopewars
is a ncurses- and GTK- based drug dealing game based in New York, with you as
the drug dealer striving to become filthy rich. It supports network
play and single-player games.
.SH OPTIONS
Valid commandline options:
.TP
\fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-no\-color\fR, \fB\-\-no\-colour\fR
"black and white", i.e. do not use pretty colours
.TP
\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-single\-player\fR
Do not connect to any available dopewars servers
.TP
\fB\-a\fR, \fB\-\-antique\fR
Antique dopewars; stick as close as possible to the functionality of the
original version.
.TP
\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-scorefile\fR=\fIFILE\fR
Specify a file to use as high score table (defaults to @DPDATADIR@/dopewars.sco)
.TP
\fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-hostname\fR=\fIADDR\fR
Specify a multiplayer hostname
.TP
\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-public\-server\fR
Run in server mode. (Note: see the \fB\-A\fR option for configuring a server
once it's running.)
.TP
\fB\-S\fR, \fB\-\-private\-server\fR
Run as a "private" server (do not report to the metaserver)
.TP
\fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-port\fR=\fIPORT\fR
Specify the network port to use
.TP
\fB\-g\fR, \fB\-\-config\-file\fR=\fIFILE\fR
Specify the pathname of a dopewars configuration file
.TP
\fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-pidfile\fR=\fIFILE\fR
Specify the pathname of a PID file to maintain while running as a server
.TP
\fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-logfile\fR=\fIFILE\fR
Write log messages to the given file (rather than standard output)
.TP
\fB\-A\fR, \fB\-\-admin\fR
Connect to a server running on localhost, for administration
.TP
\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-ai\-player\fR
Create and run a computer player
.TP
\fB\-w\fR, \fB\-\-windowed\-client\fR
Force the use of a graphical client (GTK+ or Win32)
.TP
\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-text\-client\fR
Force the use of a text-mode (curses) client (by default, a windowed client
is used when possible)
.TP
\fB\-P\fR, \fB\-\-player\fR=\fINAME\fR
Sets the default player name
.TP
\fB\-C\fR, \fB\-\-convert\fR=\fIFILE\fR
Convert a high score file used by dopewars-1.5.1 or earlier to the format
used by more recent versions
.TP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
Display a help screen
.TP
\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
Output version information and exit.
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Leon Breedt <ljb@debian.org>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Additional
updates by Ben Webb <benwebb@users.sf.net>.