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                         . . .  D  O  T  S  . . .


       For points, create squares like this:

                                *---*
                                | X |
                                *---*

       Whoever has more squares at the end of the game wins.
       When a square is won, that player's initial will be
       put inside the square as shown. 

       To move the cursor, use one of three ways:
       The "rogue/vi" keys, the number keys or the 
       keys surrounding the 's'.

       rogue:                         's':                       numbers
        
        y k u                        q w e                        7 8 9
       h     l                      a  s  d                      4     6
        b j n                        z x c                        1 2 3

       The circle represents which direction you would move away from
       where the cursor would currently be located.  The numbers are
       good for terminals that have separate number key pads. The RETURN
       key or the space-bar will enter a move at the current cursor position.

       When a player enters a move, if he did NOT close any boxes, then
       it is the other player's turn.  If the player DOES close a box, it
       remains that players turn and he MUST move again even if he doesn't
       have another scoring move.

       ^L   will redraw the screen if it gets messed up (or try ^\).
       'S'  will save your game.

       If you are playing the two player game, that is, another human,
       not the computer, use the ESCAPE key to 'talk' to the other player.
       You can ONLY do this when it's your turn. You cannot save games when
       playing someone else.  There is no high score file for two player games.

       Command line arguments:

       You can see the high-scores without playing by typing:

       % dots -s

       You can restart a saved game by typing:

       % dots -r
          which will read "dots.save" from your home directory or:

       % dots -r saved_file_name
	   if you've saved it as something other than "dots.save".
	   Be sure to give the full pathname if the file is not in
	   your current directory.

       You can avoid the menu by giving the following information on
       the command line:

       % dots LENGTH WIDTH LEVEL [C]

          where "length", "width", and "level" are values to use
          for the length and width of the playing board and level
	  is the level of difficulty to play at (0-3).
          'C' is the initial to use if you don't want the first
	  letter of your account name in the middle of your squares.

       Example:

	   % dots 5 9 0 F

	   will play an easy game on a 5 X 9 board and your boxes will be
	   initialized with 'F'.


       There is also a way to play others on the system. In the menu,
       choose the '7' item.  From the command line (avoiding the menu),
       type:

       % dots 2 login name [tty]

       You may specify the tty if the same user is logged in more than
       once.  You would use the same format to respond to someone else's
       request to play you.  When you send (receive) a request, the
       challenged will get a message every 30 seconds until that user replys 
       or until the challenger terminates (just like talk).
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