Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!play 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 Lines: 18 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.