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6 dopewars - drug dealing game
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9 dopewars [OPTIONS] ...
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12 dopewars is a ncurses- and GTK- based drug dealing game based in New
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14 supports network play and single-player games.
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19 -b, --no-color, --no-colour
20 "black and white", i.e. do not use pretty colours
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22 -n, --single-player
23 Do not connect to any available dopewars servers
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25 -a, --antique
26 Antique dopewars; stick as close as possible to the functional‐
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29 -f, --scorefile=FILE
30 Specify a file to use as high score table (defaults to
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33 -o, --hostname=ADDR
34 Specify a multiplayer hostname
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36 -s, --public-server
37 Run in server mode. (Note: see the -A option for configuring a
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40 -S, --private-server
41 Run as a "private" server (do not report to the metaserver)
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43 -p, --port=PORT
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46 -g, --config-file=FILE
47 Specify the pathname of a dopewars configuration file
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49 -r, --pidfile=FILE
50 Specify the pathname of a PID file to maintain while running as
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54 Write log messages to the given file (rather than standard out‐
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58 Connect to a server running on localhost, for administration
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61 Create and run a computer player
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64 Force the use of a graphical client (GTK+ or Win32)
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67 Force the use of a text-mode (curses) client (by default, a win‐
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74 Convert a high score file used by dopewars-1.5.1 or earlier to
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78 Display a help screen
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81 Output version information and exit.
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84 This manual page was written by Leon Breedt <ljb@debian.org>, for the
85 Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Additional updates
86 by Ben Webb <benwebb@users.sf.net>.
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