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1 2 Bog is a fairly portable simulation of Parker Brother's game of Boggle and 3 is similar to the 4.[23] BSD "boggle" and Sun's "boggletool". 4 Bog has not been derived from any proprietary code. 5 It has been tested on the Sun 3 under SunOS 3.2 and on the Atari 1040ST (MWC). 6 7 What You Need 8 9 You will need curses/termcap and a large word list. 10 The minix word list or /usr/dict/words will do nicely. 11 The word list must already be sorted (you can use "sort -c" to check). 12 13 Contents 14 15 README - this file 16 Makefile 17 bog.man - half-hearted man page (use the game's help command) 18 bog.h - configuration and header info 19 bog.c - machine independent game code 20 word.c - machine independent word list routines 21 help.c - (curses) help routine 22 mach.c - (curses) display code 23 prtable.c - ditto 24 timer.c - machine dependent (os) input polling 25 mkdict.c - convert a word list to a bog dictionary 26 mkindex.c - create an index file for the bog dictionary 27 showdict.c - print a bog dictionary to stdout 28 29 Portability 30 31 - I've tried to make bog.c (the program logic) independent of the I/O. 32 My plan was to make it straightforward to adapt the game to run under a 33 windowing system (eg., Suntools, GEM). I have no plan to actually do this. 34 I've stuck to a small subset of the curses routines. 35 - The program runs with the input in raw mode. 36 - If you want the running timer you must #define TIMER in bog.h 37 and insert the input polling code in timer.c for your system. There is 38 already code there for BSD, SYSV, and ATARI. 39 40 Setup 41 42 1. Check bog.h and Makefile and edit to fit your environment 43 2. "make all" 44 This will make all the binaries and create the dictionary and index files 45 3. Move "dict", "dict.ind", and "helpfile" to where you specified in bog.h 46 4. Play away 47 48 Distribution 49 50 You may use this software for your enjoyment and you may share it with others. 51 You may not sell this software or use it for any commercial purposes 52 whatsoever. All modified versions of the software that you redistribute must 53 clearly indicate your changes. 54 55 If you come across any bugs or make any changes you'd like to share please 56 send mail to me rather than posting to the net. 57 58 Enjoy. [But beware: boggle can be addictive!] 59 60 ----- 61 Barry Brachman | UUCP: {alberta,uw-beaver,uunet}! 62 Dept. of Computer Science| ubc-vision!ubc-csgrads!brachman 63 Univ. of British Columbia| Internet: brachman (a] cs.ubc.ca 64 Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5 | brachman%ubc.csnet (a] csnet-relay.arpa 65 (604) 228-5010 | brachman (a] ubc.csnet 66
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