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<p>fish -- plays the children&#39;s game of Go Fish</p>

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<p>fish [-p]</p>

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<p><i>fish</i> plays the children&#39;s game of Go Fish.
The computer plays against the player.
The object of the game is to collect more &#34;books&#34; of cards than your opponent by querying each other&#39;s hand.</p>

<p>This version implements the child-friendly rules outlined in <i>Hoyle&#39;s Rules of Games</i>.</p>

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>OPTIONS</a></h2>

<p><i>fish</i> accepts the following option:</p>

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<dt><a name="-p"
>-p</a></dt><p class="pad"></p>

<dd>Puts <i>fish</i> into &#34;professional mode&#34;.</dd><p class="pad"></p>
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<p>Strategy employed by <i>fish</i>&#39;s &#34;professional mode&#34; could be somewhat smarter.</p>

<p>User interaction resembles BSD&#39;s implementation which is rather...spartan.</p>

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>AUTHOR</a></h1>

<p>The Perl implementation of <i>fish</i> was written by Clinton Pierce,
<i>clintp@geeksalad.org</i>.</p>

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>COPYRIGHT and LICENSE</a></h1>

<p>This program is Copyright 1999,
by Clinton Pierce.</p>

<p>Freely redistributable under the Perl Artistic License.</p>

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