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From 5d9a3ac6b9eaf63167e5c7c01f0bb33d383dab14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luis Ressel <aranea@aixah.de>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 22:57:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Rename recover to recover-nethack
---
doc/recover.6 | 30 +++++++++++++++---------------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/recover.6 b/doc/recover.6
index 1209d31d..c3fdd851 100644
--- a/doc/recover.6
+++ b/doc/recover.6
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH RECOVER 6 "14 December 2015" NETHACK
+.TH RECOVER-NETHACK 6 "14 December 2015" NETHACK
.de ND
.ds Nd \\$3
..
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@
.NR $NHDT-Revision: 1.9 $
.ds Na Kenneth Lorber
.SH NAME
-recover \- recover a NetHack game interrupted by disaster
+recover-nethack \- recover a NetHack game interrupted by disaster
.SH SYNOPSIS
-.B recover
+.B recover-nethack
[
.B \-d
.I directory
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ so such games can be recovered at the point of the last level change.
The
.I base
options tell
-.I recover
+.I recover-nethack
which files to process.
Each base option specifies recovery of a separate game.
.PP
@@ -83,47 +83,47 @@ by a user number to avoid conflicts,
or "xlock" if the number of concurrent players is being limited.
It may be necessary to look in the playground to find the correct
base name of the interrupted game.
-.I recover
+.I recover-nethack
will transform these level files into a save file of the same name as
.I nethack
would have used.
.PP
Since
-.I recover
+.I recover-nethack
must be able to read and delete files from the playground
and create files in the save directory,
it has interesting interactions with game security.
Giving ordinary players access to
-.I recover
+.I recover-nethack
through setuid or setgid is tantamount to leaving the playground
world-writable,
with respect to both cheating and messing up other players.
For a single-user system, this of course does not change anything,
so some of the microcomputer ports install
-.I recover
+.I recover-nethack
by default.
.PP
For a multi-user system,
the game administrator may want to arrange for all .0 files in the
-playground to be fed to recover when the host machine boots,
+playground to be fed to recover-nethack when the host machine boots,
and handle game crashes individually.
If the user population is sufficiently trustworthy,
-.I recover
+.I recover-nethack
can be installed with the same permissions the
.I nethack
executable has.
In either case,
-.I recover
+.I recover-nethack
is easily compiled from the distribution utility directory.
.SH NOTES
.PP
Like
.I nethack
itself,
-.I recover
+.I recover-nethack
will overwrite existing savefiles of the same name.
Savefiles created by
-.I recover
+.I recover-nethack
are uncompressed;
they may be compressed afterwards if desired,
but even a compression-using
@@ -133,12 +133,12 @@ will find them in the uncompressed form.
nethack(6)
.SH BUGS
.PP
-.I recover
+.I recover-nethack
makes no attempt to find out if a base name specifies a game in progress.
If multiple machines share a playground, this would be impossible to
determine.
.PP
-.I recover
+.I recover-nethack
should be taught to use the nethack playground locking mechanism to
avoid conflicts.
.SH COPYRIGHT
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