WORM(6) GENIX Programmer's Manual WORM(6)
NAME
worm - Play the growing worm game
SYNOPSIS
worm [ size ]
DESCRIPTION
In worm, you are a little worm, your body is the "o"'s on the screen
and your head is the "@". You move with the hjkl keys (as in the
game snake). If you don't press any keys, you continue in the
direction you last moved. The upper case HJKL keys move you as if
you had pressed several (9 for HL and 5 for JK) of the corrosponding
lower case key (unless you run into a digit, then it stops).
On the screen you will see a digit, if your worm eats the digit is
will grow longer, the actual amount longer depends on which digit it
was that you ate. The object of the game is to see how long you can
make the worm grow.
The game ends when the worm runs into either the sides of the
screen, or itself. The current score (how much the worm has grown)
is kept in the upper left corner of the screen.
The optional argument, if present, is the initial length of the
worm.
BUGS
If the initial length of the worm is set to less than one or more
than 75, various strange things happen.
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