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ricochet - client application for multi-player ricochet robots game

Author

       icochet is the work of Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>

       Ricochet is
       Copyright 2003,2012 Keith Packard. All Rights Reserved.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify  it  under  the  terms  of  the  GNU
       General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.

       This  program  is  distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
       the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General  Public
       License for more details.

       You  should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write
       to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.  Permission
       is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person  obtaining  a  copy  of  this  software  and  associated
       documentation  files  (the  "Software"),  to  deal in the Software without restriction, including without
       limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of
       the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the  following
       conditions:

       The  above  copyright  notice  and  this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial
       portions of the Software.

                                                   2021-01-06                                        RICOCHET(6)

Description

Ricochet  is  a  client  for  the  Ricochet  Robots server (rrserve). It provides a view of the board and
       permits the user to fully interact with the server, both managing the set of games running in the  server
       and playing individual games.

Name

       ricochet - client application for multi-player ricochet robots game

Synopsis

       ricochet --host <hostname> --port <port> --name <username> --game <gamename> --watch

Usage

       Options are as follows:

       --help,--usage
              Print a help/usage message and exit.

       -h,--hosthostname
              Select the host running the Ricochet Robots server. By default, ricochet connects to localhost

       -p,--portport
              Select the TCP port to connect to. By default, ricochet connects to port 5252.

       -n,--nameusername
              Specify the player name to present to the server. This name will be shown to all other players. By
              default, this is the user's login name.

       -g,--gamegamename
              Select  a  game  to  join  or create. By default, ricochet presents a dialog showing the available
              games and also allowing the user to create a new game.

       -w,--watch
              This allows the user to watch the selected game rather than participating in it.

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