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120 lines
4.1 KiB
Groff
.\" $NetBSD: quiz.6,v 1.10 2003/08/07 09:37:34 agc Exp $
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
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.\" Jim R. Oldroyd at The Instruction Set.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
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.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
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.\" without specific prior written permission.
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.\"
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
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.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" @(#)quiz.6 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93
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.\"
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.Dd May 31, 1993
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.Dt QUIZ 6
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm quiz
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.Nd random knowledge tests
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl t
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.Op Fl i Ar file
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.Op Ar question answer
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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utility tests your knowledge of random facts.
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It has a database of subjects from which you can choose.
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With no arguments,
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.Nm
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displays the list of available subjects.
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.Pp
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The options are as follows:
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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.It Fl t
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Use tutorial mode, in which questions are repeated later if you didn't get
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them right the first time, and new questions are presented less frequently
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to help you learn the older ones.
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.It Fl i
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Specify an alternative index file.
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.El
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.Pp
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Subjects are divided into categories.
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You can pick any two categories from the same subject.
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.Nm
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will ask questions from the first category and it expects answers from
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the second category.
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For example, the command
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.Dq quiz victim killer
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asks questions which are the names of victims, and expects you to answer
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with the cause of their untimely demise, whereas the command
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.Dq quiz killer victim
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works the other way around.
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.Pp
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If you get the answer wrong,
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.Nm
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lets you try again.
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To see the right answer, enter a blank line.
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.Ss Index and Data File Syntax
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The index and data files have a similar syntax.
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Lines in them consist of several categories separated by colons.
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The categories are regular expressions formed using the following
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meta-characters:
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.sp
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.Bl -tag -width "pat|pat" -compact -offset indent
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.It pat|pat
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alternative patterns
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.It {pat}
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optional pattern
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.It [pat]
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delimiters, as in pat[pat|pat]pat
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.El
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.Pp
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In an index file, each line represents a subject.
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The first category in each subject is the pathname of the data file for
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the subject.
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The remaining categories are regular expressions for the titles of each
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category in the subject.
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.Pp
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In data files, each line represents a question/answer set.
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Each category is the information for the question/answer for that category.
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.Pp
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The backslash character (``\e'') is used to quote syntactically significant
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characters, or at the end of a line to signify that a continuation line
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follows.
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.Pp
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If either a question or its answer is empty,
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.Nm
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will refrain from asking it.
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/games/quiz.db -compact
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.It Pa /usr/share/games/quiz.db
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The default index and data files.
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.El
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.Sh BUGS
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.Nm
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is pretty cynical about certain subjects.
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