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13 This program allows you to play the familiar Battleships game against the
14 computer on a 10x10 board.
15 The interface is visual and largely self-explanatory;
16 you place your ships and pick your shots by moving the
26 Note that when selecting a ship to place, you must type the capital letter
27 (these are, after all, capital ships).
28 During ship placement, the `r' command may be used to ignore the current
29 position and randomly place your currently selected ship.
30 The `R' command will place all remaining ships randomly.
31 The \&^L command (form feed, ASCII 12) will force a screen redraw).
33 The command-line arguments control game modes.
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44 permits ships to be placed adjacently
49 variant allows a side to shoot for as long as it continues to score hits.
53 game allows a player one shot per turn for each of his/her ships still afloat.
54 This puts a premium scoring hits early and knocking out some
55 ships and also makes much harder the situation where you face a superior force
56 with only your PT-boat.
58 Normally, ships must be separated by at least one square of open water.
61 option disables this check and allows them to close-pack.
63 The algorithm the computer uses once it has found a ship to sink is provably
65 The dispersion criterion for the random-fire algorithm may not be.
68 Originally written by one
72 .An Chuck A. DeGaul Aq cbosgd!cad .
73 Visual user interface,
75 option, code rewrite and manual page by
76 .An Eric S. Raymond Aq esr@snark.thyrsus.com