rogue

games [Unix] A Dungeons-and-Dragons-like game using

character graphics, written under BSD Unix and subsequently

ported to other Unix systems. The original BSD "curses(3)"

screen-handling package was hacked together by Ken Arnold to

support "rogue(6)" and has since become one of Unix's most

important and heavily used application libraries. Nethack,

Omega, Larn, and an entire subgenre of computer dungeon games

all took off from the inspiration provided by "rogue(6)". See

also nethack.

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