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-.\" Copyright (c) 1989 The Regents of the University of California.
-.\" All rights reserved.
+.\" $NetBSD: worms.6,v 1.5 1995/04/22 08:00:57 cgd Exp $
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1993
+.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
.\"
.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" from: @(#)worms.6 6.4 (Berkeley) 6/23/90
-.\" $Id: worms.6,v 1.4 1995/01/31 15:54:01 jtc Exp $
+.\" @(#)worms.6 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93
.\"
-.Dd June 23, 1990
+.Dd May 31, 1993
.Dt WORMS 6
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -44,27 +45,20 @@
.Op Fl l Ar #
.Op Fl n Ar #
.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
+.Tn UNIX
+version of the DEC-2136 program ``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 ``field'' for the worm(s) to eat.
.It Fl t
-causes each worm to leave a trail behind it.
-.It Fl n Ar #
-start # worms.
-.It Fl l Ar #
-worms are # chars long.
-.El
-.Sh AUTHOR
-Eric P. Scott
+Makes each worm leave a trail behind it.
+.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.
.Sh BUGS
The lower-right-hand character position will not be updated properly
on a terminal that wraps at the right margin.