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