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authorwiz <wiz@NetBSD.org>2002-09-26 18:31:58 +0000
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Lots of minor fixes resulting from reading these man pages in detail.
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diff --git a/battlestar/battlestar.6 b/battlestar/battlestar.6
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+++ b/battlestar/battlestar.6
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: battlestar.6,v 1.11 2002/09/26 16:12:39 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: battlestar.6,v 1.12 2002/09/26 18:31:59 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -46,15 +46,11 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is an adventure game in the classic style.
-However, it's slightly less
-of a
-puzzle and more a game of exploration.
-There are a few magical words
-in the game, but on the whole, simple English
+However, it's slightly less of a puzzle and more a game of exploration.
+There are a few magical words in the game, but on the whole, simple English
should suffice to make one's desires understandable to the parser.
.Sh THE SETTING
-In the days before the darkness came, when battlestars ruled the
-heavens...
+In the days before the darkness came, when battlestars ruled the heavens...
.Bd -literal -offset indent
Three He made and gave them to His daughters,
Beautiful nymphs, the goddesses of the waters.
@@ -63,8 +59,7 @@ Two to wash the lands and churn the waves asunder,
Three to rule the world and purge the skies with thunder.
.Ed
.Pp
-In those times great wizards were known and their powers were beyond
-belief.
+In those times great wizards were known and their powers were beyond belief.
They could take any object from thin air, and, uttering the word
.Sq su
could disappear.
@@ -132,14 +127,13 @@ The command
.Dq save
will save your game in a file called
.Pa .Bstar
-in your home directory
-by default.
+in your home directory by default.
You can recover a saved game by using the
.Fl r
option when you start up the
game, or by giving the name of the saved file as an argument.
Save files will be saved to and restored from your home directory unless a
-path is specified \- i.e.,
+path is specified - i.e.,
.Dq Li battlestar -r savedgame
will look for
.Pa savedgame
@@ -155,7 +149,7 @@ The compass directions N, S, E, and W can be used if you have a compass.
If you don't have a compass, you'll have to say R, L, A, or B, which
stand for Right, Left, Ahead, and Back.
Directions printed in room descriptions are
-always printed in R, L, A, \*[Am] B relative directions.
+always printed in R, L, A, and B relative directions.
.Sh HISTORY
I wrote Battlestar in 1979 in order to experiment with the niceties of
the C Language.
@@ -163,7 +157,7 @@ Most interesting things that happen in the game are hardwired into the
code, so don't send me any hate mail about it!
Instead, enjoy art for art's sake!
.Sh AUTHOR
-David Riggle
+.An David Riggle
.Sh INSPIRATION \*[Am] ASSISTANCE
.Bl -item -compact
.It