.TH CRAB 6 10/5/86
.UC 4
.SH NAME
crab \- play Scrabble
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B crab
[ 
.B -l
.I prefix
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Crab
plays the Scrabble Brand Crossword game against you.  The game is
screen-oriented and should be fairly self-explanatory.  Try typing a
.B ?
to toggle the help window, if you are confused.  You can move the cursor
with a numeric keypad, or using the commands
.B ^B
\,
.B ^F
\,
.B ^P
and
.B ^N
a la Emacs.
.br
If you want to know
the rules of Scrabble (which is a trademark of Selchow and Righter,
by the way) you'll have to look on the inside of the box that the
game comes in.
.SH OPTIONS
If you specify the
.B -l
flag, the program will print all acceptable words beginning with
.I prefix
to the standard output (instead of playing the game).  If
.I prefix
is null, you get the entire wordlist.
.SH DIAGNOSTICS
When
.I crab
doesn't like what you're trying to do, it issues a corrective message.
If you are unable to figure out what's wrong, it probably indicates
that you should be playing the game
.I fish
instead of Scrabble.
.SH BUGS
The program is a strategic moron since it always picks the move with
the hightest score.
.PP
The inclusion of a large number of uncommon words in
.I crab
\'s wordlist is
.B not
a bug; it's a feature.
.SH AUTHORS
Guy Jacobson and Andrew Appel