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NAME

       mts - MARS tournament scheduler


SYNOPSIS

       mts


DESCRIPTION

       Mts is a scheduler for corewar tournaments. It runs either a round-
       robin (all warriors fight each other) or a set of battles where the
       first warrior fights the remaining warriors in turn. A rank listing
       similar to KotH's is produced at the end.  Mts prompts for all
       tournament parameters and the warrior list; input can be saved to a
       file which can later be redirected as in mts < inputfile.  You can also
       specify "inputfile" on the command line.

       Mts is a generic scheduler, i.e. it works with many different corewar
       interpreters (MARSs). The MARS should run non-interactively and accept
       options and the name of two warrior files on the command line. The MARS
       should also echo the result of a battle to stdout. The output contains
       either three integers in a row which are interpreted as wins1, wins2,
       and ties, or four integers which are interpreted as wins1, ties, wins2,
       ties. The former format is produced by pMARS, mercury2 and c88; the
       latter by KotH and pMARS -k.

       Mts has an auto-recovery feature. If aborted by Ctrl-C, kill or logout,
       it saves intermediate results to the file _recover.mts.  If mts finds
       this file in the current directory when restarted, it continues with
       the aborted tournament.


BUGS

       Mts does not work with the curses display version of pMARS, because the
       curses screen output goes to stdout and clobbers the battle result.

       Unless pMARS was compiled with the SERVER option turned on, ^C will not
       terminate the program, but enter the debugger. So, if you use ^C to
       abort mts, you also need to enter "quit" in order to terminate pMARS
       with a functional debugger.

       Don't use the pMARS -o (order result) option, as this will confuse mts.


AUTHOR

       Stefan Strack (stst@vuse.vanderbilt.edu)

PMARS PROJECT                   April 10, 1994                          MTS(6)

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