spider(1)spider(1)NAMEspider - play double deck solitaire
SYNOPSISspider [ -save_file filename ] [ -toolkitoption... ]
DESCRIPTIONspider is a particularly challenging double-deck soli-
taire. 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 envi-
ronment variable HELPDIR for XView version 1.0.1 or HELP-
PATH for XView version 2.0 or later to the directory con-
taining the spider.info file. See spot help on the prop-
erty sheet for more details.
OPTIONS-save_file filename
Start up using the specified save file.
RESOURCESspider 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.
roundsCards (class RoundCards)
Specifies whether to use rounded cards are not.
Rounded cards look better, but are considerably
slower. The default is "on".
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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 visibil-
ity when its unnecessary.
squish (class Squish)"
Specifies whether to use a different card layout
that saves on screen space but can also be some-
what confusing. The default is "off".
helpDir (class HelpDir)
Specifies where to look for the help files.
SEE ALSOxsol(1)COPYRIGHT
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 soft-
ware 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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