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spider - play double deck solitaire
spider [ -save_file filename
] [ -toolkitoption... ]
spider is a particularly challenging double-deck
solitaire. Unlike most solitaires, it provides extraordinary opportunities
for the skillful player to overcome bad luck in the deal by means of careful
analysis and complex manipulations. The spider program does not actually
play the game for you, but rather takes the place of the cards (by displaying
the tableau on the screen) and keeping a record of the game so that you
can follow out long lines of play without losing track of where you started
from.
spider when compiled with XView has a property sheet for defining
resources. The property sheet is on the "File" menu item. To be sure spot
help is active, set the environment variable HELPDIR for XView version
1.0.1 or HELPPATH for XView version 2.0 or later to the directory containing
the spider.info file. See spot help on the property sheet for more details.
- -save_file filename
- Start up using the specified save file.
spider
understands all of the core X Toolkit resource names and classes as well
as:
- bell (class Bell)
- Boolean which specifies whether spider will use
the bell to when complaining about illegal moves. The default is "true".
- confirm (class Confirm)
- Boolean which specifies whether spider will use
ask for confirmation before certain actions. The default is "true".
- replayTime
(class ReplayTime)
- Specifies the time (in microseconds) to pause between
each move when showing a Replay. The default is 200.
- roundCards (class RoundCards)
- Specifies whether to use rounded cards are not. Rounded cards look better,
but are considerably slower. The default is "on".
- deltaMod (class DeltaMod)
- Specifies the interval at which to recalulate the inter-card spacing. The
default is 1, which means the card stacks are resized every time they grow
or shrink when when they near the bottom of the table. Setting this to a
higher value will cut down on the number of redraws by limiting visibility
when its unnecessary.
- squish (class Squish)"
- Specifies whether to use a
different card layout that saves on screen space but can also be somewhat
confusing. The default is "off".
- helpDir (class HelpDir)
- Specifies where
to look for the help files.
xsol(1)
Copyright (c) 1990 by David Lemke & Network Computing Devices,
Inc.
(lemke@ncd.com)
Copyright 1990 Heather Rose and Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Copyright
(c) 1989, Donald R. Woods and Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Permission to use,
copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any
purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright
notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this
permission notice appear in supporting documentation.
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