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.TH XTREK 6 "08 Mar 1989"
.SH NAME
xtrek \- X based multi-player space shoot 'em up game
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B
xtrek
[
\-s
.BI xtrek-server-machine
] [
\-d
.BI display
] [
\-q
] [
\-c
.BI ship-number
] [
\-n
.BI ship-name
] [
\-S
] [
\-P
] [
\-R
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Xtrek
is a game based on the X window environment.
It is thoroughly described in xtrek.doc which probably lives
in /usr/games/lib/xtrek/xtrek.doc.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-s
Use "xtrek-server-machine" as the machine to connect to.
If not specified,
.B xtrek
will first try to use the XTREKSERVER
environment variable, and failing that will use the name "xtrek-server".
.TP
.B \-d
Create the connection from the server machine to the specified display.
If not specified,
.B xtrek
will use the DISPLAY environment variable.
The display "unix:0.0" (a default) will not work unless the xtrek daemon
is running on a node with a display.
.TP
.B \-q
This queries the xtrek-server to find out how many players and robots
there are.
If the output is a tty, the results will be printed.
If not, the return value is encoded using the following values added
together:
.in +2
1000 - Federation players are in the game
.br
100 - Romulan players are in the game
.br
10 - Klingon players are in the game
.br
1 - Orion players are in the game
.in -2
.TP
.B \-c
Become a copilot of ship "ship-number".
.TP
.B \-n
Use "ship-name" as a name of a ship to search for in your resource
database.
The string returned is used to modify your ship characteristics.
See
.B
xtrek_ship (6)
for more information about ship characteristics.
.TP
.B \-S
List the scores database to stdout.
This prints all the scores that have been entered in the scores database.
.TP
.B \-R
List the "running" scores to stdout.
This prints the scores of all the people who have entered the game
during it's present incarnation.
.TP
.B \-P
List the players who are presently in the game.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR xtrek_ship (6)
.BR xtrekb (6)
.SH AUTHOR
.TP
Chris Guthrie (chris@ic.berkeley.edu)
.SH CONTRIBUTORS
.PD 0
.TP
Dan Dickey (ddickey@cray.com)
.TP
Matt Burdick (burdick%hpda@hplabs.hp.com)
.TP
Jeff Schmidt (jas%hpda@hplabs.hp.com)
.TP
Hal Peterson (hrp@cray.com)
.PD
.SH BUGS
"Captain, the probability factor approaches 1.0".