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 	A `galaxy-spec' is
 
 	  * a number, between 1 and 8, for one of the standard eight
-	    galaxies; 
+	    galaxies;
 
 	  * a `galaxy seed' of 12 hex digits (a 48-bit value), for any
 	    arbitrary galaxy; or
@@ -283,7 +283,10 @@ RIGHT ON COMMAND-LINE
 
 	An attribute name on its own is a request to print the current
 	value of that attribute.  An assignment ATTR=VALUE makes ATTR
-	have the requested VALUE.
+	have the requested VALUE.  When requesting attributes, you can
+	instead give a pattern containing `*' and `?' metacharacters
+	(matching zero or more, or exactly one character) -- all
+	matching attributes are printed.
 
 	The attributes, their meanings, and the acceptable values are as
 	follows:
@@ -297,11 +300,15 @@ RIGHT ON COMMAND-LINE
 			255.
 
 	score		Current number of kills.  Must be an integer
-			between 0 a 65535, or one of the strings
+			between 0 and 65535, or one of the strings
 			`harmless', `mostly-harmless', `poor',
 			`average', `above-average', `competent',
 			`dangerous', `deadly', or `elite'.
 
+	legal-status	Current legal status.  Must be an integer
+			between 0 and 255, or one of the strings
+			`clean', `offender', or `fugitive'.
+
 	credits		Number of credits.  Must be between 0 and
 			429496729.5.
 
@@ -368,7 +375,7 @@ RIGHT ON COMMAND-LINE
 	`-load' option.
 
 
-  elite-prices [-g GALAXY] [-s SORT] [FROM TO]
+  elite-prices [-g GALAXY] [-s SORT] [FROM [TO]]
 
 	Shows minimum, average and maximum profit (in that order, in
 	credits per unit) for the various commodities, starting at one
@@ -380,11 +387,17 @@ RIGHT ON COMMAND-LINE
 
 	You can change the worlds under consideration by typing a pair
 	of planet-specs or economy types (as printed by `elite-find').
-	Any planet-specs are obviously taken relative to GALAXY.
+	Any planet-specs are obviously taken relative to GALAXY.  You
+	can also say `avg' for the average over all economy types
+	(though this takes longer to compute).
 
 	The SORT parameter may be one of `min', `max', or `avg' to sort
 	by minimum, maximum or average profit (highest at the top).
 
+	If only FROM is given, the average prices for the given world or
+	economy type are printed in the standard order (i.e., the SORT
+	parameter is ignored).
+
 
   elite-salesman [-OPTIONS] GALAXY [START]
 
@@ -460,7 +473,18 @@ RIGHT ON COMMAND-LINE
 	applicable to a wide variety of optimization problems.  There
 	are some decent descriptions on the 'net -- try asking Google
 	about it.
-			
+
+
+  elite-tantalus [-maxdist DIST] [-minratio RATIO] [GALAXY] ...
+
+	Finds pairs of worlds for which there is a large disparity
+	between the distance between them and the corresponding shortest
+	path.  It reports pairs such that the distance between them is
+	less than DIST (default 8 LY -- making this large just makes the
+	program slower) and where the shortest path is more than RATIO
+	times the distance in each GALAXY specified -- by default the
+	eight standard ones.
+
 
 3. The graphical editor
 
@@ -555,7 +579,7 @@ RIGHT ON COMMAND-LINE
 	unrewarding) or pirates (risky and tedious), and start trading
 	food and other cheap items.
 
-$Id: README,v 1.7 2003/03/07 00:47:13 mdw Exp $
+$Id$
 
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