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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 tourna‐
ment 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)
