linequiz

NAME
SYNTAX
DESCRIPTION
Options
ENVIRONMENT
Limits
LICENSE
INTERNET
SEE ALSO

NAME

linequiz − command-line quiz-program

SYNTAX

linequiz [options] [input file]
linequiz [--help|-h|/?]
linequiz --version

DESCRIPTION

This program isn’t actually meant to be directly used on a normal computer-display, but as a backend program. You can use it for example to write graphical interfaces in other programming languages, you can easily combine it with text-to-speech software, or blind users can use it with a braille-line.

Each action is introduced by a fixed english keyword in capital letters. These can be used as hooks in other programs.

When you enter the input file on the command-line, you may leave away the extension ".akfquiz". If the filename is given without a path and the environment-variable QUIZPATH is set, then the file is searched there.

The prompt "#>" means, that it’s a question with just one possible numeric answer, while the prompt "##>" indicates a question with more than one possible numeric answer. For text-string answers "$>" is used.

Options

-h | --help | /?

print a short help-message

	-s		no sound (no beep)
	-l		add more line-breaks (useful when used as backend)
	-w 75		set the width of the output

-d <dir>

path to the quizfiles. This parameter overrides the environment variable QUIZPATH.

-OEM

OEM charset (IBM850 or IBM 437) for output

-latin1

Latin 1 charset (ISO 8859-1), or a compatible one for output

ENVIRONMENT

QUIZPATH

searchpath to the quiz-files. It may have more than one directory, just like the variable PATH.

If not set a reasonable default will be used. Check with --help.

LANG

Language. The language-setting in the quiz-file overrides this.

MM_CHARSET

If set to IBM850, CP850, IBM437 or CP437 and the quiz-file doesn’t specify an equivalent charset, then the Latin1->OEM converter is activated.

This variable is just supported on multi-user systems.

Limits

Support of different charsets is very limited.

The program does not support the keywords rtl: and bidi:.

LICENSE

AKFQuiz is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

AKFQuiz is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

INTERNET

http://akfquiz.nongnu.org/