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.\" Hey, Emacs! This is an -*- nroff -*- source file.
.\" Copyright (c) 2003 Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
.\"
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.\" $Id: tome.man,v 1.1 2003/08/02 05:01:25 srivasta Exp $
.TH TOME 6 "August 1 2003" "Debian" "Debian GNU/Linux manual"
.SH NAME
tome \- is a graphical dungeon adventure game in the vein of rogue
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B tome
.I [options]
.I [\-\- suboptions]
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page explains the Debian package
.B "tome".
.B Tome 
is a single-player, 
.I graphical
dungeon adventure game using textual characters
to represent the walls and floors of a dungeon and the inhabitants therein,
in the vein of 
.I rogue, 
.I hack, 
.I nethack, 
and 
.I moria.
.PP
This version of
.B Tome
has been compiled with both 
.I ncurses
and the 
.I X Windowing system.
and hence can be played on a virtual console as well as under 
.I X.
In the latter case, the game pulls up multiple windows.
.SH OPTIONS
.PD 0
.TP 10
.B \-h 
Print out a usage message.
.TP
.BR \-n
Start a new character
.TP
.BR \-f
Request fiddle mode (no high score entry)
.TP
.BR \-w
Request wizard mode (no high score entry)
.TP
.BR \-v
Request sound mode
.TP
.BR \-g
Request graphics mode
.TP
.BR \-o
Request original keyset
.TP
.BR \-r
Request rogue-like keyset
.TP
.BR \-s<num>  
Show <num> high scores
.TP
.BR \-u<who>  
Use your <who> savefile
.TP
.BR \-m<sys>  
Force 'main-<sys>.c' usage
.TP
.BR \-d<lib>=<path>  
Define a 'lib' dir sub-path. Valid values of lib are help info user
bone save data apex xtra edit file
.PD
.SH "GETTING STARTED"
To start with, you can just say tome -uTest, and that creates a
save file with the file name 
.I /var/games/tome/save/<UID>Test. 
The best place to get help is the program itself; help is reached by
the command
.B ?
and presents a menu of choices.
.PP
Program options can be set  using the = command. To see what the
various options mean, access the List of Options help menu with the ?
command. 
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR nethack (6).
.BR angband (6).
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system.