Grid is a game loosely modeled after "maze war" and "rogue".
It is a multi-player, real-time game of exploration (and mayhem)
in a three-dimensional grid of walls and halls.

The screen is broken up into three areas during the game as follows:
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|     \                          |        +-+-+-+-+-+          |
|      \                         |        |         |          |
|       \                        |        + +-+-+ + + + +-+    |
|        \            /----------|        | | |d| |       |    |
|         \          /|          |        + + + +-+ +-+-+-+    |
|          \        / |          |        |   |   |   |   |    |
|           \      /  |          |        +-+ +^+ +-+ + + +    |
|            |----|   |          |        |   |   | | | |u|    |
|            |    |   |          |        + +-+ +-+ + + +-+    |
|            |    |   |          |        |     |   |     |    |
|            |----|   |          |    + + + +-+-+   +-+-+-+    |
|           / /--\ \  |          |    |     |                  |
|          / /----\ \ |          |    + + + +                  |
|         /          \|          |        |                    |
|        /            \----------|        +-+                  |
|       /                        |                             |
|      /                         |                             |
|     /                          |                             |
|You're on level 1 with 6 `others' score:98 gold:86 health:100 |
|psl has entered your level                                    |
|                                                              |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+

The area at the left shows you what you are seeing ahead of you,
(or ahead and to the left or right with the "peek" commands).

The area at the right shows you a "map" of the places you've been
with the sysmbols "u" and "d" representing "up" and "down" trapdoor
locations, and the symbols "^", ">", "v", and "<" representing your
position and orientation.  Note that you can see the "down" trapdoor
in the floor of the view at left.

Up to three lines at the bottom of the screen give useful information
or responses to commands.  A line enclosed in quotes (") is an utterance
from another player (see the "y" command).

The commands in Grid are:

MOTION COMMANDS
f	move forward
b	move backward
u	go up through a trap door
	(Note that simply stepping on a "down" trapdoor gets you through.)

TURNING COMMANDS
l	turn left
r	turn right
L	peek to the left (like "fl" except you don't move)
R	peek to the right (like "fr" except you don't move)
<SP>	look straight ahead
s	shoot (straight ahead)

INFORMATION COMMANDS
?	print location & other statistics
w	print list of active players & levels
y	yell something; type a message ended with a <RETURN>

MAGIC COMMANDS
(# is a talisman number, except in '#o' where it's number of gold pieces)
#o	make an offering to the dark spirits, hoping for a talisman in return
#i	print information about the specified talisman
#d	drop a talisman
#z	zap - invoke the power of a talisman

MISCELLANEOUS COMMANDS
Q	quit
^D	quit
^L	redraw the screen

The grid is inhabited by human players and "others".  The others are always
unfriendly and will shoot you if they notice you.  The players, on the other
hand, aren't necessarily unfriendly.

Players and "others" don't appear on the map, but do appear in the view area.
"Others" are composed of a diamond shaped array of the letter "o" with an eye
composed of the symbol "#".  Players are composed of a diamond shaped array of
upper case letters with an eye of "#".  The four orientations of "other" are:

	o                o                o                o
       ooo              ooo              ooo              ooo
      ooooo            ooooo            oo#oo            ooooo
     ooooooo          #oooooo          oo###oo          oooooo#
    ooooooooo        ###oooooo        oo#####oo        oooooo###
     ooooooo          #oooooo          oo###oo          oooooo#
      ooooo            ooooo            oo#oo            ooooo
       ooo              ooo              ooo              ooo
	o                o                o                o
  looking away      looking left    looking at you   looking right
				      (beware!)

Players look similar, except the "o"s are "A"s or "B"s or "C"s, etc.

Magic talismans and piles of gold pieces may also occur in the grid.
A talisman is shown as a single '*'.  Piles of gold pieces appear as
differing sized trangles of '$'.

	 			     $    
	 			    $$$   
	 			   $$$$$  
	 			  $$$$$$$ 
	 			 $$$$$$$$$
	*			$$$$$$$$$$$
     A Talisman			A Gold Pile


The Grid program has the following syntax:

    grid [-info] [-nNAME] [-records] [-tTERMTYPE]

The optional arguments are:

-info		Print this information file.
-nNAME		Call yourself NAME instead of your logname.
-records	Print the Grid records.
-tTERMTYPE	Ignore the environment TERM and use TERMTYPE instead.

You can arrange to have the program notify you whenever anyone starts the
game up by putting your name on the "sucker list".  To do this run the
program "sucker".  The sucker program allows you to add your name, delete
your name, check whether you're on the list, and print a list of all the
games with sucker lists.
