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FREECOL(6) FreeCol's Manpage FREECOL(6)

NAME

freecol - A free clone of Colonization

SYNOPSIS

freecol [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the freecol command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

freecol is a free clone of the famous game Colonization. It's a turn based strategy game in which each player becomes leader of an European nation, fighting to obtain the independence of the mother country.

A multiplayer mode has been added to the original game.

OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below.

DIR should be the directory with FreeCol's data files, it has a subdirectory called images.
Runs FreeCol in windowed mode instead of full screen mode.
Runs FreeCol without sound.
Shows summary of options.
Shows version of program.
Starts a stand-alone server on the specified port.

LICENSE

FreeCol is available under GPL license terms.

JAVA-WRAPPERS NOTE

This program is a shell script wrapper based on java-wrappers(7). You therefore benefit from several features; please see the java-wrappers(7) manual page.

SEE ALSO

Homepage: http://freecol.org

java-wrappers(7)

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Jean Lepropre <jean_lepropre@users.sourceforge.net>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

It was updated by Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@debian.org>

July 28, 2004 GNU