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+Battleships solitaire game with a color point-and-shoot
+interface in the style of blue and galaxis games.
+
+				BS 2.0
+
+Battleships is an intrinsically silly game, but I couldn't resist fixing this
+sucker. It now has a purely visual interface (you place ships and call for
+shots by moving the cursor around the board using the standard yuhjklbn keys).
+
+The default game now disallows placement of ships so that they touch. A new
+-c option is available to force the older behavior.
+
+I also removed the `seemiss' option (now always on) and `ask' (which is only
+useful for cheating). And I ifdefed out the ditsy opening screen; if you want
+it back, compile with -DPENGUIN. One strike against featureitis...
+
+The code now lints as clean as the broken SysV curses lint library will let it.
+
+Some #ifdefs in the code should result in the right things being done for
+BSD or USG systems. They key off A_UNDERLINE.  If you're using the Linux
+ncurses library, tell the makefile.
+
+This was probably a waste of a day or so. But what the hack -- rewriting the
+strategy robot as an FSM was fun, and maybe the interface will set a good
+example for the next guy.
+
+<*** FLAME ON ***>
+
+People who write termcap games that require you to enter #@!!#$! coordinates
+rather than doing the natural pick-and-place with cursor motions should be
+stuffed in suits and condemned to write COBOL for the rest of their days...
+
+<*** FLAME OFF ***>
+
+O.K., I feel better now that I've got that off my chest...
+
+November 1993: I've added function key support, and ANSI/POSIXized the code.
+
+					Eric S. Raymond
+					esr@snark.thyrsus.com
+				(WWW: http://www.ccil.org/~esr/home.html)