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-.\" from: @(#)worms.6 6.4 (Berkeley) 6/23/90
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-.Dd June 23, 1990
-.Dt WORMS 6
+.Dd May 31, 1993
+.Dt WORMS 6
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm worms
.Nd animate worms on a display terminal
.Sh SYNOPSIS
-.Nm worms
+.Nm
.Op Fl ft
-.Op Fl length Ar #
-.Op Fl number Ar #
+.Op Fl d Ar delay
+.Op Fl l Ar length
+.Op Fl n Ar number
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-Brian Horn (cithep!bdh) showed me a
-.Tn TOPS-20
-program on the DEC-2136 machine called
-.Nm WORM ,
-and suggested that I write a similar program that would run under
-.Ux .
-I did, and no apologies.
+A
+.Ux
+version of the DEC-2136 program
+.Dq worms .
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl f
-makes a ``field'' for the worm(s) to eat.
+Makes a
+.Dq field
+for the worm(s) to eat.
.It Fl t
-causes each worm to leave a trail behind it.
+Makes each worm leave a trail behind it.
+.It Fl d
+Specifies a delay, in milliseconds, between each update.
+This is useful for fast terminals.
+Reasonable values are around 20-200.
+The default is 0.
+.It Fl l
+Specifies a length for each worm; the default is 16.
+.It Fl n
+Specifies the number of worms; the default is 3.
.El
-.Pp
-You can figure out the rest by yourself.
-.Sh AUTHOR
-Eric P. Scott
-.Sh BUGS
-The lower-right-hand character position will not be updated properly
-on a terminal that wraps at the right margin.