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NAME
worms - animate worms on a display terminal
SYNOPSIS
worms [ -field ] [ -length # ] [ -number # ] [ -trail ]
DESCRIPTION
Brian Horn (cithep!bdh) showed me a TOPS-20 program on the DEC-2136
machine called WORM, and suggested that I write a similar program
that would run under Unix. I did, and no apologies.
-field makes a "field" for the worm(s) to eat; -trail causes each
worm to leave a trail behind it. You can figure out the rest by
yourself.
FILES
/etc/termcap
AUTHOR
Eric P. Scott
SEE ALSO
Snails, by Karl Heuer
DIAGNOSTICS
Invalid length
Value not in range 2 <= length <= 1024
Invalid number of worms
Value not in range 1 <= number <= 40
TERM: parameter not set
The TERM environment variable is not defined. Do
TERM=terminal type
export TERM
Unknown terminal type
Your terminal type (as determined from the TERM environment
variable) is not defined in /etc/termcap.
Terminal not capable of cursor motion
Your terminal is too stupid to run this program.
Out of memory
This should never happen on a VAX.
BUGS
The lower-right-hand character position will not be updated properly
on a terminal that wraps at the right margin.
Printed 11/16/83 1
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Terminal initialization is not performed.
There should be an option to have the worms eat Pink Floyd lyrics.
Printed 11/16/83 2