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66 lines
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Bog is a fairly portable simulation of Parker Brother's game of Boggle and
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is similar to the 4.[23] BSD "boggle" and Sun's "boggletool".
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Bog has not been derived from any proprietary code.
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It has been tested on the Sun 3 under SunOS 3.2 and on the Atari 1040ST (MWC).
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What You Need
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You will need curses/termcap and a large word list.
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The minix word list or /usr/dict/words will do nicely.
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The word list must already be sorted (you can use "sort -c" to check).
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Contents
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README - this file
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Makefile
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bog.man - half-hearted man page (use the game's help command)
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bog.h - configuration and header info
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bog.c - machine independent game code
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word.c - machine independent word list routines
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help.c - (curses) help routine
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mach.c - (curses) display code
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prtable.c - ditto
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timer.c - machine dependent (os) input polling
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mkdict.c - convert a word list to a bog dictionary
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mkindex.c - create an index file for the bog dictionary
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showdict.c - print a bog dictionary to stdout
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Portability
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- I've tried to make bog.c (the program logic) independent of the I/O.
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My plan was to make it straightforward to adapt the game to run under a
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windowing system (eg., Suntools, GEM). I have no plan to actually do this.
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I've stuck to a small subset of the curses routines.
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- The program runs with the input in raw mode.
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- If you want the running timer you must #define TIMER in bog.h
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and insert the input polling code in timer.c for your system. There is
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already code there for BSD, SYSV, and ATARI.
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Setup
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1. Check bog.h and Makefile and edit to fit your environment
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2. "make all"
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This will make all the binaries and create the dictionary and index files
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3. Move "dict", "dict.ind", and "helpfile" to where you specified in bog.h
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4. Play away
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Distribution
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You may use this software for your enjoyment and you may share it with others.
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You may not sell this software or use it for any commercial purposes
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whatsoever. All modified versions of the software that you redistribute must
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clearly indicate your changes.
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If you come across any bugs or make any changes you'd like to share please
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send mail to me rather than posting to the net.
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Enjoy. [But beware: boggle can be addictive!]
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-----
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Barry Brachman | UUCP: {alberta,uw-beaver,uunet}!
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Dept. of Computer Science| ubc-vision!ubc-csgrads!brachman
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Univ. of British Columbia| Internet: brachman@cs.ubc.ca
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Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5 | brachman%ubc.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa
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(604) 228-5010 | brachman@ubc.csnet
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