.TH Command DELIVER
.SY "deliver <ITEM> <SECTS> <THRESH>"
The deliver command is used to specify to which sector
the various commodities in a sector
will be delivered at each update.
.s3
In the syntax "<SECTS> is the sector or sectors from which the deliveries
are made, <ITEM> is one of the following:
.NF
c       civilians
m       military
f       food
s       shells
g       guns
p       planes
i       iron ore
d       gold dust
b       bars of gold
o       oil
l       light construction materials
h       heavy construction materials
.FI
and "<THRESH>" can be one of three optional arguments.
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.in +4
I. A numeric argument in parentheses, specifies a minimum amount to
be left in each delivering sector.
For example, "(64)" specifies that only the amount in excess of 64
can be delivered.  This is particularly handy in cases where you wish
to maintain some stock in a given sector but pass along any extra to
an adjoining sector.
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II. A numeric argument preceded by a plus sign, (e.g. "+32"), specifies that
all thresholds in the specified area should be set to the thresh value and no
delivery destinations should be changed.
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III. A thresh argument of "-" requests a list of deliveries and thresholds
for all sectors in the specified area and changes nothing.
This is the only way to examine the delivery thresholds.
.in
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Except in the "+" and "-" cases described above,
the program asks the direction for each sector's delivery of the
designated item.
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The direction must be specified as one of the six direction characters,
(usually `y' `h' `b' `v' `f' or `t'), the "no-direction" character,
(usually `h'), or just a carriege return, (in which case the
delivery will not be changed in that sector).
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You may also specify a threshold at this time which will override
any threshold specified by the command arguments by following the
direction with a number in parentheses.
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NOTE: delivery thresholds are stored as a multiple of 8.
Thus specifying a threshold of "(25)" will actually become
a threshold of 24.
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The census and commodity reports will indicate deliveries by the 
same characters used to specify them in this command.
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If accessing a sector causes an update to be performed
and the destination sector is not owned by you 
and is not checkpointed the message "delivery
walkout between x,y & x,y" will be printed and none will be delivered.
If the destination sector is checkpointed delivery
will proceed normally.  This facilitates exchange of goods between
adjoining countries.
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Delivery routes may also be mapped out with the "route" command.

See also : census, commodity, route, innards, syntax
