.TH WORMS 6 "1 February 1983" .UC 4 .SH NAME worms \- animate worms on a display terminal .SH SYNOPSIS .B /usr/games/worms [ .B \-field ] [ .B \-length # ] [ .B \-number # ] [ .B \-trail ] .SH DESCRIPTION .ad b Brian Horn (cithep!bdh) showed me a .I TOPS-20 program on the DEC-2136 machine called .IR WORM , and suggested that I write a similar program that would run under .IR Unix . I did, and no apologies. .PP .B \-field makes a "field" for the worm(s) to eat; .B \-trail causes each worm to leave a trail behind it. You can figure out the rest by yourself. .SH FILES /etc/termcap .SH AUTHOR Eric P. Scott .SH SEE ALSO .IR Snails , by Karl Heuer .SH BUGS The lower-right-hand character position will not be updated properly on a terminal that wraps at the right margin. .PP Terminal initialization is not performed.