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<refentry id='sst.6'>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>sst</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>6</manvolnum>
<refmiscinfo class='date'>Nov 1 2004</refmiscinfo>
+<refmiscinfo class='productname'>SST2K</refmiscinfo>
+<refmiscinfo class='source'>SST2K</refmiscinfo>
+<refmiscinfo class='manual'>Games</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv id='name'>
<refname>sst</refname>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>sst</command>
-<arg choice='opt'>-t </arg>
-<arg rep='repeat' ><replaceable>command</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice='opt'>-r <replaceable>filename</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice='opt'>-t </arg>
+ <arg choice='opt'>-x </arg>
+ <arg choice='opt'>-V </arg>
+ <arg rep='repeat' ><replaceable>command</replaceable></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<para>This is one of the great early classic computer games from the
1970s and still has a remarkable amount of play value. Run
-<command>sst</command> in a terminal window to start it. Typing
-'comands' at the prompt will list all commands; help is available for
+<command>sst.py</command> in a terminal window to start it. Typing
+'commands' at the prompt will list all commands; help is available for
each one individually as well. Full documentation is <ulink
-url='http://sst.berlios.de/sst-doc.html'>browseable</ulink>. On
+url='&projecthome;/sst-doc.html'>browseable</ulink>. On
systems where <filename>/usr/share/doc/sst/</filename> is a legal
filename, it will probably be installed there as well.</para>
-<para>There is one option -t, which forces the original pure-tty mode.
+<para>The option -t forces the original pure-tty mode.
Normally sst tries to come up in full-screen mode that assumes it is
running on a cursor-addressable terminal or terminal emulator.</para>
+<para>The option -r sets up replay of a session logfile. Commands
+in the logfile are executed, then additional commands are taken
+from stdin as normal. The -r option forces -t mode.</para>
+
+<para>The option -x enables some debugging features of interest
+probably only to sst2k developers.</para>
+
+<para>With -V, the program emits its version and exits.</para>
+
<para>Input tokens for the setup prompts will be read from the
remainder of the command line before standard input. Thus, for
example, you can invoke the program as</para>
mode (all features enabled).</para>
</refsect1>
+<refsect1 id='files'><title>FILES</title>
+<variablelist>
+<varlistentry>
+<term><filename>/usr/share/doc/sst/sst.doc</filename></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Documentation file.</para>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+<varlistentry>
+<term><filename>$TMPDIR/sst-input.log</filename></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Where user input is saved to (send this with your bug reports).
+If TMPDIR is not set is defaults to <filename>/tmp</filename>.</para>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+<varlistentry>
+<term><filename>emsave.trk</filename></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Save file produced by EMEXIT command.</para>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+</variablelist>
+</refsect1>
+
<refsect1 id='authors'><title>AUTHORS</title>
<para>Super Star Trek was designed and written by David Matuszek, Paul
-Reynolds, and Don Smith in the 1970s. It was resurrected by Tom Almy.
-The screen-oriented interface is by Stas Sergeev. This version has
-been cleaned up and documented by Eric S. Raymond
+Reynolds, and Don Smith beginning in 1973; at that time it was called
+simply 'Trek'. It was resurrected by Tom Almy. The screen-oriented
+interface is by Stas Sergeev. This version has been improved, cleaned
+up and documented by Eric S. Raymond
<email>esr@snark.thyrsus.com</email>. There is a <ulink
-url='https://developer.berlios.de/projects/sst/'>project
+url='&projecthome;'>project
page</ulink>.</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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