freecol (6)

Leading comments

                                     Hey, EMACS: 
First parameter, NAME, should be all caps
Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1)

(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man6/freecol.6".)

NAME

freecol - A free clone of Colonization

SYNOPSIS

freecol [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the freecol command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

freecol is a free clone of the famous game Colonization. It's a turn based strategy game in which each player becomes leader of an European nation, fighting to obtain the independence of the mother country.

A multiplayer mode has been added to the original game.

OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below.

--freecol-data DIR

DIR should be the directory with FreeCol's data files, it has a subdirectory called images.

--windowed

Runs FreeCol in windowed mode instead of full screen mode.

--no-sound

Runs FreeCol without sound.

--usage

Shows summary of options.

--version

Shows version of program.

--server PORT

Starts a stand-alone server on the specified port.

LICENSE

FreeCol is available under GPL license terms.

JAVA-WRAPPERS NOTE

This program is a shell script wrapper based on java-wrappers(7). You therefore benefit from several features; please see the java-wrappers(7) manual page.

SEE ALSO

Homepage: freecol.org
java-wrappers(7)

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Jean Lepropre <jean_lepropre@users.sourceforge.net>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
It was updated by Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@debian.org>