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From: play@mcvax.UUCP (Andries Brouwer)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: Another Hack mod
Message-ID: <502@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 10-Mar-85 16:11:11 EST
Article-I.D.: mcvax.502
Posted: Sun Mar 10 16:11:11 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 12-Mar-85 20:40:40 EST
References: <3985@ucla-cs.ARPA> <939@gloria.UUCP> <191@gitpyr.UUCP>
Reply-To: play@mcvax.UUCP (Andries Brouwer)
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <191@gitpyr.UUCP> robert@gitpyr.UUCP (Robert Viduya) writes:
>><
>Posted from  colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
>> Another convenient mod, and an easy one, is to let the user specify
>> a character on the command line:
>> 
>> 	hack -T		# tourist
>> 	hack -W		# wizard (garden variety)
>
>Hack already has this built in.  Use the -u option.  Admittedly you have to
>give it a player name first, but it is there:
>
>	hack -u robert-w	# player name = robert, character = wizard
>	hack -u Gandalf-t	# player name = Gandalf, character = tourist
>
-- In version 1.0.2 I adopted colonels's suggestion.
-- Robert is right, but only when you call hack directly, not when you use
   the shell file. In 1.0.2 both work.