quiz/quiz.6

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  37 .\"     @(#)quiz.6      8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93
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  39 .Dd May 31, 1993
  40 .Dt QUIZ 6
  41 .Os
  42 .Sh NAME
  43 .Nm quiz
  44 .Nd random knowledge tests
  45 .Sh SYNOPSIS
  46 .Nm
  47 .Op Fl t
  48 .Op Fl i Ar file
  49 .Op Ar question answer
  50 .Sh DESCRIPTION
  51 The
  52 .Nm
  53 utility tests your knowledge of random facts.
  54 It has a database of subjects from which you can choose.
  55 With no arguments,
  56 .Nm
  57 displays the list of available subjects.
  58 .Pp
  59 The options are as follows:
  60 .Bl -tag -width indent
  61 .It Fl t
  62 Use tutorial mode, in which questions are repeated later if you didn't get
  63 them right the first time, and new questions are presented less frequently
  64 to help you learn the older ones.
  65 .It Fl i
  66 Specify an alternative index file.
  67 .El
  68 .Pp
  69 Subjects are divided into categories.
  70 You can pick any two categories from the same subject.
  71 .Nm
  72 will ask questions from the first category and it expects answers from
  73 the second category.
  74 For example, the command
  75 .Dq quiz victim killer
  76 asks questions which are the names of victims, and expects you to answer
  77 with the cause of their untimely demise, whereas the command
  78 .Dq quiz killer victim
  79 works the other way around.
  80 .Pp
  81 If you get the answer wrong,
  82 .Nm
  83 lets you try again.
  84 To see the right answer, enter a blank line.
  85 .Ss Index and Data File Syntax
  86 The index and data files have a similar syntax.
  87 Lines in them consist of several categories separated by colons.
  88 The categories are regular expressions formed using the following
  89 meta-characters:
  90 .sp
  91 .Bl -tag -width "pat|pat" -compact -offset indent
  92 .It pat|pat
  93 alternative patterns
  94 .It {pat}
  95 optional pattern
  96 .It [pat]
  97 delimiters, as in pat[pat|pat]pat
  98 .El
  99 .Pp
 100 In an index file, each line represents a subject.
 101 The first category in each subject is the pathname of the data file for
 102 the subject.
 103 The remaining categories are regular expressions for the titles of each
 104 category in the subject.
 105 .Pp
 106 In data files, each line represents a question/answer set.
 107 Each category is the information for the question/answer for that category.
 108 .Pp
 109 The backslash character (``\e'') is used to quote syntactically significant
 110 characters, or at the end of a line to signify that a continuation line
 111 follows.
 112 .Pp
 113 If either a question or its answer is empty,
 114 .Nm
 115 will refrain from asking it.
 116 .Sh FILES
 117 .Bl -tag -width /usr/share/games/quiz.db -compact
 118 .It Pa /usr/share/games/quiz.db
 119 The default index and data files.
 120 .El
 121 .Sh BUGS
 122 .Nm
 123 is pretty cynical about certain subjects.