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diff --git a/powwow.6 b/powwow.6 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..197134f --- /dev/null +++ b/powwow.6 @@ -0,0 +1,115 @@ +.\" -*-nroff-*- +.TH POWWOW 6 "09 Mar 1994" +.UC 4 +.SH NAME +powwow \- telnet protocol client for MUD playing +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B powwow +[ +.I host port +] +| +[ +.I definition-file +] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.PP +.B powwow +is a client program that implements the telnet protocol, adding some bells +and whistles to the standard +.B telnet(1) +communication utility, mainly intended for playing multi-user games +such as +.I MUDs (Multi User Dungeons). +.PP +.B powwow +is either invoked with +.I host +and +.I port, +and then does not save any definitions, or with a +.I definition-file, +which is supposed to contain various definitions as well as the name +of the host and the port number. If the definition-file does not +exist, the user is prompted for the host name and port number which +are saved in the new file. The definition file can be edited with any +text editor, and is updated whenever a definition (action, alias etc) +is changed. If the environment variable POWWOWDIR is defined, +.B powwow +will look there first for definition files (and create new ones +there). + +Lines that begin with `#' are assumed to be special commands to be +processed locally. Help is available with the #help command. There is +also a more detailed manual somewhere. Notably, semicolons separate +commands on a single line. To send a literal semicolon, prefix it with +a backslash. + +.B powwow +also supports the MUME editing protocol for editing texts locally. The +name of the editor is taken from the environment variable POWWOWEDITOR +or EDITOR. "emacs" is used by default. For text viewing, POWWOWPAGER +is searched, then PAGER and "more" is used by default. + +If the first character of the editor is `&' (which is then skipped), +the editor is assumed to run in another window and powwow will run +concurrently with the editor without waiting for it to finish. + +.SH AUTHOR +.PP +Massimiliano Ghilardi <max@Linuz.sns.it> and +Gustav Hållberg <f92-gha@nada.kth.se> +are the people that added many new features to an existing client, +.I Cancan +and transformed it into powwow. +Mattias Engdegard (f91-men@nada.kth.se) was the original author of Cancan +but many other people have contributed at least as much, including +Finn Arne Gangstad (finnag@pvv.unit.no), David Gay (dgay@di.epfl.ch), +Gary Dezern (gdezern@satelnet.org) and Lai-Chang Woo (vivriel@scs.com.sg). + +.I powwow +was originally inspired by Peter Unold's +.I Tintin +client, but now only bears a very remote resemblance +to the original. It aims to be a simple but very interactive client, +and contains features that are interesting for "immortal players", in +particular on MUME, though any mud player should benefit from +.I powwow +as well. +.SH FILES +.br +.DT +.ta \w'$(POWWOWDIR)/*\ \ \ 'u +powwow The binary. +.br +$(POWWOWDIR)/* Definition files (aliases, etc) +.SH ENVIRONMENT +.DT +.ta \w'POWWOWEDITOR\ \ \ 'u +TERM Your terminal type. +.br +POWWOWDIR Where powwow will store and search for its +.br + files by default. +.br +POWWOWEDITOR Name of editor to use +.br +EDITOR Alternative editor +.br +POWWOWPAGER Name of pager to use +.br +PAGER Alternative pager +.SH SEE ALSO +telnet(1), more(1), emacs(1) +.SH DIAGNOSTICS +Most diagnostics are self-explanatory. Some are even more +self-explanatory than others, namely those who crash the program. +There is a diagnostic report called `core' which is not currently in +human-readable form. The messages from +.I powwow +are generally prefixed with a `#' to separate them from output from +the remote host. +.SH BUGS +.PP +Are you kidding? + |