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  <!ENTITY dhsurname   "<surname>Knof</surname>">
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  <!ENTITY dhemail     "<email>dknof@gmx.de</email>">
  <!ENTITY dhusername  "Diether Knof">
  <!ENTITY dhucpackage "<refentrytitle>FREEDOKO</refentrytitle>">
  <!ENTITY dhpackage   "freedoko">
  <!ENTITY progname    "FreeDoko">

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  <refentryinfo>
    <address>
      &dhemail;
    </address>
    <author>
      &dhfirstname;
      &dhsurname;
    </author>
    <copyright>
      <year>2001</year>
      <holder>&dhusername;</holder>
    </copyright>
    &dhdate;
  </refentryinfo>
  <refmeta>
    &dhucpackage;

    &dhsection;
  </refmeta>
  <refnamediv>
    <refname>&progname;</refname>

    <refpurpose>a Doppelkopf (card) game</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>
  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <cmdsynopsis>
      <command>&progname;</command>

      <arg>options</arg>
    </cmdsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>
  <refsect1>
    <title>DESCRIPTION</title>

    <para>
      With <command>&progname;</command> you can play Doppelkopf against the computer.
      In the future, we will support multiplayer over a network.
    </para>

    <para>
      The game `Doppelkopf' is a card game for four or more Players similar to``Skat' (like <command>xskat</command>).
      One game will be played by four players.
      Doppelkopf originates probably from the mostly in south germany played game `Schafkopf'.
      The game is written with GTK+ for Linux and Windows.
    </para>

  </refsect1>
  <refsect1>
    <title>OPTIONS</title>

    <para>
      These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax,
      with long options starting with two dashes (`-').  A summary of
      options is included below or can be get with <command>&progname; -?</command>.
    </para>

    <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>
	  <option>-?</option>
	  <option>-h</option>
          <option>--help</option>
        </term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Show the summary of the options.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>
	  <option>-v</option>
          <option>--version</option>
        </term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Show the version.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>
	  <option>-L</option>
          <option>--license</option>
        </term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Show the license.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>
	  <option>-u string</option>
          <option>--ui string</option>
        </term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
	    Set the user interface.
	    Til now, only 'gtk' is implemented.
	  </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>
	  <option>-s string</option>
          <option>--settings string</option>
        </term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
	    Load the settings from given file.
	  </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>
	  <option>-n string</option>
          <option>--name string</option>
        </term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
	    Set the name of the human player.
	  </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>
	  <option>-l string</option>
          <option>--language string</option>
        </term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
	    Load the given language.
	    Till now, we do have 'english' and 'german'.
	  </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>
	  <option>--seed unsigned</option>
        </term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
	  Start with the given seed.
	  </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>
	  <option>--startplayer unsigned</option>
        </term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
	  Start with the given startplayer (1, 2, 3, 4).
	  </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>
	  <option>-C string</option>
          <option>--cardsset string</option>
        </term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
	    Load the given cardset.
	  </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>
	  <option>-H number</option>
          <option>--cards_height number</option>
        </term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
	    Set the height of the cards.
	  </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>
	  <option>-b string</option>
          <option>--bug_report string</option>
        </term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
	    Replay the given bug report.
	    This is not fully implemented, yet.
	  </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>
	  <option>string</option>
        </term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
	  Continue the party from the given file ('-' for not taking the default one).
	  </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>
  <refsect1>
    <title>BUGS</title>

    <para>
      Much of the documentation is still lacking.
    </para>
    <para>
      We haven't finished the program, yet
    </para>
    <para>
      Surely many other bugs.
    </para>
  </refsect1>
  <refsect1>
    <title>SEE ALSO</title>

    <para>xskat (6).</para>

    <para>
      The programs will be documented fully by the files in the documentation directory.
      You will also have a context sensitive manual in the game.
    </para>
  </refsect1>
  <refsect1>
    <title>AUTHOR</title>

    <para>
      This manual page was written by &dhusername; &dhemail;.
    </para>
    <para>
      FreeDoko is written by Borg Enders benders@borgsoft.de and Diether Knof dknof@gmx.de.
    </para>
    <para>
      The homepage is http://free-doko.sourceforge.net/
    </para>

  </refsect1>
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