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author | jkh <jkh@FreeBSD.org> | 1994-09-04 04:03:31 +0000 |
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committer | jkh <jkh@FreeBSD.org> | 1994-09-04 04:03:31 +0000 |
commit | d8a265c292730d37ead16d6333be10451286af8a (patch) | |
tree | cb4c99719941e9adcca318e58d903337a369d49f /games/quiz/quiz.6 | |
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Bring in the 4.4 Lite games directory, modulo man page changes and segregation
of the x11 based games. I'm not going to tag the originals with bsd_44_lite
and do this in two stages since it's just not worth it for this collection,
and I've got directory renames to deal with that way. Bleah.
Submitted by: jkh
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diff --git a/games/quiz/quiz.6 b/games/quiz/quiz.6 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d658703 --- /dev/null +++ b/games/quiz/quiz.6 @@ -0,0 +1,119 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by +.\" Jim R. Oldroyd at The Instruction Set. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by the University of +.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)quiz.6 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93 +.\" +.Dd May 31, 1993 +.Dt QUIZ 6 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm quiz +.Nd random knowledge tests +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm quiz +.Op Fl t +.Op Fl i Ar file +.Op Ar question answer +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm quiz +utility tests your knowledge of random facts. +It has a database of subjects from which you can choose. +With no arguments, +.Nm quiz +displays the list of available subjects. +.Pp +The options are as follows: +.Bl -tag -width indent +.It Fl t +Use tutorial mode, in which questions are repeated later if you didn't get +them right the first time, and new questions are presented less frequently +to help you learn the older ones. +.It Fl i +Specify an alternate index file. +.El +.Pp +Subjects are divided into categories. +You can pick any two categories from the same subject. +.Nm Quiz +will ask questions from the first category and it expects answers from +the second category. +For example, the command ``quiz victim killer'' asks questions which are +the names of victims, and expects you to answer with the cause of their +untimely demise, whereas the command ``quiz killer victim'' works the +other way around. +.Pp +If you get the answer wrong, +.Nm quiz +lets you try again. +To see the right answer, enter a blank line. +.Sh "Index and Data File Syntax" +The index and data files have a similar syntax. +Lines in them consist of several categories separated by colons. +The categories are regular expressions formed using the following +meta-characters: +.sp +.Bl -tag -width "pat|pat" -compact -offset indent +.It pat|pat +alternate patterns +.It {pat} +optional pattern +.It [pat] +delimiters, as in pat[pat|pat]pat +.El +.Pp +In an index file, each line represents a subject. +The first category in each subject is the pathname of the data file for +the subject. +The remaining categories are regular expressions for the titles of each +category in the subject. +.Pp +In data files, each line represents a question/answer set. +Each category is the information for the question/answer for that category. +.Pp +The backslash character (``\e'') is used to quote syntactically significant +characters, or at the end of a line to signify that a continuation line +follows. +.Pp +If either a question or its answer is empty, +.Nm quiz +will refrain from asking it. +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/games/quiz.db -compact +.It Pa /usr/share/games/quiz.db +The default index and data files. +.El +.Sh BUGS +.Nm Quiz +is pretty cynical about certain subjects. |