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On the Windows platform, to run any of the commands, check the Start Menu under Programs -> Hogs. On all other platforms, use the syntax:
hogs <command> [arguments].
For example, to run the game browser, run hogs browse. To run the client and connect to a specified host (e.g., localhost), run hogs play -h localhost.
If you know the address of a machine on which a Hogs server is running, you can run the hogs client yourself and give it the hostname as an argument. For this, use:
hogs play -h HOSTNAME
where HOSTNAME is the address of a machine on which the server is running.
The game starts up. Controls are listed if you press and hold the SHIFT key.
If you know a number of servers on which games might be held, you can list them in the favorite-servers file in the data folder whereever Hogs was installed. By default on Linux, this would be /usr/local/share/hogs/data/favorite-servers. On Windows, it's probably C:\Program Files\Hogs\data\favorite-servers.
Then, you can run the game browser, which lets you monitor and connect to any of a number of servers. It only shows active servers. It can be run with
hogs browse [FILENAME]
The optional FILENAME argument can be used to specify a different file other than the default favorite-servers file.
From Windows, this can also be accessed through the Start Menu.
You may want to know more information about a server without actually joining it. The ping tools connects to a remote server, obtains the following information, and disconnects:
It can be run with the command
hogs ping HOSTNAME
where HOSTNAME is the name of the remote host on which a server is running. A command line version also exists as:
hogs text-ping HOSTNAME
It is not available from the Start Menu, since it takes an argument.
Hogs Project 2005-05-15