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NAME

       snake4, snake4scores - Game starring a fruit-eating snake.

SYNOPSIS

       snake4   [-hHV]   [-M   file]   [--help]   [--highscores]   [--version]
       [--merge-highscores=file]

       snake4scores

DESCRIPTION

       The snake4 program is my  fourth  implementation  of  the  snake  game,
       written for Unix and X11. Previous versions were written for MS-DOS.

       Move  the  snake  around  the  screen  and eat food. The snake grows in
       length as you eat. Avoid hitting the fence, eating lethal mushrooms and
       rotten food, and biting your own tail.

       Now  and then a slim-pill will bounce around. If you eat this, you will
       get shorter, and you will gain bonus points for every length you loose.
       The bonus is also given when a round is over.

       When food starts blinking, it’s about to rot. Rotten food is poisonous,
       and thus uneatable. As long as it blinks, it can still be eaten.

       Oh, yes - I almost forgot: You may be visited by the  evil  headbanger.
       Take  my  advice  and run away from him before he hits you in the head!
       He won’t stay long.

       The keys used to control the game are given at startup.

       snake4 features a site-wide highscore file. The file contains  the  top
       200 users. Each user may appear once only in the highscore table.

       For technical reasons, snake4 connects to the X11 server before parsing
       options. This makes it impossible to eg.  browse  the  highscore  table
       using  -H  if  no server is available.  To be able to see the scores in
       such a case, snake4scores produces  the  same  output  as  snake4  with
       option -H, but does no attempt on connecting to the X11 server.

   OPTIONS
       -h, --help
              Print a usage message on standard output, and exit successfully.

       -H, --highscores
              Dump  the  highscore  list  to   standard   output,   and   exit
              successfully.   Starting  snake4  with the name snake4score does
              the same thing, without first  connecting  to  the  X11  server.
              Note  that  this will possibly print more entries than the 20 or
              so that will fit within the game startup screen.

       -V, --version
              Print  version  information  on  standard  output,   then   exit
              successfully.

       -M, --merge-highscores=file
              Merge  separate  highscore  file file into the default highscore
              file, and exit successfully. Displays the new  highscore  table.
              This option is for the game owner or root only.

X11 OPTIONS

       In addition to the above mentioned options, snake4 accepts the standard
       X11 toolkit options.

AUTHOR

       Sverre H. Huseby <shh@thathost.com>.

                                11 October 1996                      SNAKE4(6)