spider(CONTRIB)

NAME

       spider - play double deck solitaire

SYNOPSIS

       spider [ -save_file filename ] [ -toolkitoption...  ]

DESCRIPTION

       spider  is  a  particularly  challenging double-deck solitaire.  Unlike
       most solitaires, it provides extraordinary opportunities for the skill-
       ful  player to overcome bad luck in the deal by means of careful analy-
       sis and complex manipulations.  The spider program  does  not  actually
       play the game for you, but rather takes the place of the cards (by dis-
       playing 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 to the direc-
       tory containing the spider.info file.

OPTIONS

       -save_file filename
            Start up using the specified save file.

RESOURCES

       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 confir-
               mation 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".

       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.

       helpDir (class HelpDir)
               Specifies where to look for the help files.

SEE ALSO

           xsol(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 software and its
       documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby  granted,  pro-
       vided  that  the  above  copyright notice appear in all copies and that
       both that copyright notice and this permission notice  appear  in  sup-
       porting documentation.

                                  30 Jan 1990                        spider(1)