                              Command : DELIVER

 SYNTAX:
   [##:##] Command: deliver <ITEM> <SECTS> <THRESH>

The deliver command is used to specify to which sector the various commodities
in a sector will be delivered at each update.

In the syntax, <SECTS> is the sector or sectors from which the deliveries  are
made, <ITEM> is one of the following:

                              Command : DELIVER

   u    uncompensated workers
   f       food
   s       shells
   g       guns
   p       planes
   i       iron ore
   d       gold dust
   b       bars of gold
   o       oil
   l       light construction materials
   h       heavy construction materials
   r    radioactive materials

and <THRESH> can be one of three optional arguments.

    1).  A  numeric  argument  in parentheses specifies a minimum amount to be
    left in each delivering sector.  For example, (64) specifies that only the
    amount  in  excess  of 64 can be delivered.  This is particularly handy in
    cases where you wish to maintain some stock in a  given  sector  but  pass

                              Command : DELIVER

    along any extra to an adjoining sector.

    2). A numeric argument preceded by a plus sign, (e.g. +32), specifies that
    all thresholds in the specified area should be set to the thresh value and
    no delivery destinations should be changed.

    3).  A  thresh  argument of - requests a list of deliveries and thresholds
    for all sectors in the specified area and changes nothing.   This  is  the
    only way to examine the delivery thresholds.

Except  in  the  + and - cases described above, the program asks the direction
for each sector's delivery of the designated item.

The direction must be specified as one of the six direction characters,  (usu-
ally  `y'  `h' `b' `v' `f' or `t'), the no-direction character, (usually `h'),
or just a carriage return, (in which case the delivery will not be changed  in
that sector).

                              Command : DELIVER

You  may also specify a threshold at this time which will override any thresh-
old specified by the command arguments by following the direction with a  num-
ber in parentheses.

NOTE:  delivery  thresholds  are stored as a multiple of 8.  Thus specifying a
threshold of (25) will actually become a threshold of 24.

The census and commodity reports will indicate deliveries by the same  charac-
ters used to specify them in this command.

If  accessing  a  sector  causes an update to be performed and the destination
sector is not owned by you, the message delivery walkout  between  x,y  &  x,y
will be printed and nothing will be delivered.

Delivery routes may also be mapped out with the route command.

See also : census, commodity, route, innards, syntax

