X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/rocl/blobdiff_plain/b6921b083f383f43f1996a599d61b5bf3a643861..665a500e09e1a4b20e481f1168373c111d766c75:/README diff --git a/README b/README index 62aba1d..30e32ff 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -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: @@ -368,7 +371,7 @@ 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 +383,17 @@ 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] @@ -555,7 +564,7 @@ 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: README,v 1.9 2003/03/09 23:45:02 mdw Exp $ Local variables: mode: text