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.TH ANGBAND 6 "February 16 1998" "Debian" "Debian GNU/Linux manual"
.SH NAME
angband \- is a graphical dungeon adventure game in the vein of rogue
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B angband
.I [options]
.I [\-\- suboptions]
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page explains the Debian package
.B "angband".
.B Angband 
is a single-player, 
.I graphical
dungeon adventure game using textual characters
to represent the walls and floors of a dungeon and the inhabitants therein,
in the vein of 
.I rogue, 
.I hack, 
.I nethack, 
and 
.I moria.
.B Angband 
4.2.5 is an official stable release incorporating all the changes
and improvements added since the last official stable release (
.B Angband 
4.2.4).
.PP
This version of
.B Angband
has been compiled with 
.I ncurses
and the 
.I X Windowing system and SDL2
front-ends, and hence can be played on a virtual console as well as under 
.I X.
In the latter cases, the game can use multiple windows.
.SH OPTIONS
.PD 0
.TP 10
.B \-h 
Print out a usage message.
.TP
.BR \-n
Start a new character
.TP
.BR \-w
Request wizard mode (no high score entry)
.TP
.BR \-g
Request graphics mode
.TP
.BR \-r
Rebalance monsters
.TP
.BR \-s<num>  
Show <num> high scores
.TP
.BR \-u<who>  
Use your <who> savefile
.TP
.BR \-m<sys>  
Use <sys> core code (e.g. gcu for console mode, x11 or sdl for graphics)
.TP
.BR \-d<lib>=<path>  
Define a 'lib' dir sub-path. Valid values of lib are help info user
save data scores xtra edit file
.PD
.SH "GETTING STARTED"
To start with, you can just say angband \-uTest, and that creates a
save file with the file name 
.I ~/.angband/Angband/save/<UID>.Test.
The best place to get help is the program itself; help is reached by
the command
.B ?
and presents a menu of choices.
.PP
Program options can be set  using the = command. To see what the
various options mean, access the List of Options help menu with the ?
command. 
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR nethack (6).
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system.