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authorPaul Janzen <pjanzen@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-09-25 20:51:55 +0000
committerPaul Janzen <pjanzen@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-09-25 20:51:55 +0000
commit98d37025ece07e080f9f43b03d71b4c313dd714b (patch)
tree90b55cdb1f085368276fd724dfa6e04694d3f6c3 /games/hangman/hangman.6
parent707fbeced379c66976d1a780f9d53537d5a553e0 (diff)
Merge NetBSD changes (use const where appropriate; allow alternate wordlists).
Add some code beyond that so the game doesn't hang if it gets a badly formatted alternate wordlist.
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diff --git a/games/hangman/hangman.6 b/games/hangman/hangman.6
index 7c37523cb36..69f38d3c474 100644
--- a/games/hangman/hangman.6
+++ b/games/hangman/hangman.6
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: hangman.6,v 1.4 1998/12/15 19:18:39 pjanzen Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: hangman.6,v 1.5 1999/09/25 20:51:53 pjanzen Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
.Nd Computer version of the game hangman
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm hangman
+.Op Fl d Ar wordlist
.Sh DESCRIPTION
In
.Nm hangman ,
@@ -48,10 +49,19 @@ the computer picks a word from the on-line word list
and you must try to guess it.
The computer keeps track of which letters have been guessed
and how many wrong guesses you have made on the screen in a graphic fashion.
+.Sh OPTIONS
+.Bl -tag -width flag -compact
+.It Fl d
+Use the specified
+.Ar wordlist
+instead of the default. A wordlist file must have one word per line. Only
+lowercase words of at least a certain length (typically 6 characters) are
+chosen.
+.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/dict/words -compact
.It Pa /usr/share/dict/words
-On-line word list
+Default word list
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr ddb 4 .