I'm going to try and learn to play.  Try again to learn to play...

Is that 2000 pages long? That game is rumored to be super complex.

edit: as the title of the cheat guide claims

I downloaded it a while back but was too scared to play! Have you installed any of the graphics packages or are you going hardcore text only?

I've only tried the bare text mode, because that's the way it is meant to be played!

I've played a couple of times, in years past.  Never got anywhere.  But this book holds promise!

If you want to read about it, the story so far:  https://infohost.nmt.edu/~schlake/df/0001.html