XTANK(6)

NAME
xtank - a game of tank combat

SYNOPSIS
xtank [-h]

DESCRIPTION
xtank is a multi-player vehicle combat game played in mazes of various sizes and types. You control a vehicle (usually a tank) equipped with the latest in armor and weaponry. Your objective depends on the game you play.

The xtank script invokes the appropriate binary for a given system.

OPTIONS
xtank has the following options:

-h  provides a brief summary of the known options, which are in too great a state of flux to include here.

X DEFAULTS

escherWidth (class Width)
    Specifies the width of the bogus escher menus. Zero is strongly recomended.

beep (class Beep)
    Specifies the value of the beep flags. Use 0 or 1.

drawName (class Drawname)
    Specifies the value of the display name tags flag.

keypad (class Keypad)
    Specifies the value of the use keypad flag.

background (class BackGround)
    Specifies the background color.

foreground (class ForeGround)
    Specifies the foregroud color.

color.red (class Color.Team)

color.orange (class Color.Team)

color.yellow (class Color.Team)

color.green (class Color.Team)

color.blue (class Color.Team)

color.violet (class Color.Team)

color.neutral (class Color.Team)
    Specifies the color of the coresponding team.

color.cursor (class Color.Cursor)
    Specifies the color to be used for the cursor, the "tink", commentator, radar, etc...

playerName (class PlayerName)
    Specifies the player's name.

tankName (class TankName)
    Specifies the vehicle design to use.

ENVIRONMENT

DISPLAY
    to get the default host and display number.

XTANK_DIR
    If set, its value overrides $XTANK_DIR as the default xtank directory.

XTANK_VEHICLES
    If set, its value overrides $XTANK_DIR/Vehicles as the default xtank vehicle directory.

XTANK_MAZES
    If set, its value overrides $XTANK_DIR/Mazes as the default xtank maze directory.

XTANK_PROGRAMS
    If set, its value overrides $XTANK_DIR/Programs as the default xtank robot program directory.

XTANK_VEHICLES
    If set, its value overrides $XTANK_DIR/Vehicles as the default xtank vehicle directory.

FONT_DIR
    If set, its value overrides $XTANK_DIR/Fonts as the default font search path.

XTANK_HEADERS
    If set, its value overrides ./Src/Include as the default header search path.

FILES
$XTANK_VEHICLES/*
    xtank vehicle definition.
$XTANK_PROGRAMS/*
    xtank robot programs.
$XTANK_MAZES/*
    xtank mazes.

SEE ALSO
xtrek(6)

BUGS

No, of course not.

COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1988, Terry Donahue.

AUTHORS
Terry Donahue wrote the original Xtank.
Contributing authors...
Tony Ambardar
Laura Baldwin
Sean Barrett
Lachlan Brown
Adam Bryant
Doug Church
Aaron N. Eastlund
Eric Esterling
Rob Fullmer
greg%lurker.uucp@ICS.UCI.EDU
Eon Harry
Hans Jeppesen
William Katz
Joe Killian
Kurt Lidl
Chris Moore
Christopher North-Keys
Josh M. Osborne
Robert Potter
Evan Reidell
Dan Schmidt
Matt Senft
Gordon H. Smith
John Smolin
Bill Sommerfeld
Erik Winfree
Steve Worley
Mike Zehr
Manual page contributed by Aaron Nabil Eastlund.