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Dontspace --- another X-Window solitaire game
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by John Heidemann
$Id: README,v 1.2 1994/06/16 06:32:37 johnh Exp $
Executive Summary
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Dontspace is a solitaire game for X11. It's modeled after
the game ``Free Space'' distributed with Microsoft Windows NT.
Dontspace emphasizes a clean user interface and point-based
scoring.
See the ``Release Notes'' menu item for details about what's new in
this version of Dontspace.
Installation
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0. Install wishx.
Wishx is the extended windowing shell, built from Tcl, Tk, and
Extended-Tcl. If you don't have these packages already,
you can get them by anonymous ftp from sprite.berkeley.edu
in tcl. The current files (as of this writing) are:
tcl7.3.tar.Z
tk3.6.tar.Z
and tclX7.3a.tar.Z.
Tcl, tk and tclX are quite portable and should run on most
POSIX/X11R4 or better systems.
1. Edit the Makefile to describe where wishx, dontspace and related files
should live. Also note that persistent score keeping
can be disabled; see the comment in the Makefile.
2. Type "make install".
Updates
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The latest version of dontspace can be found at ftp.cs.ucla.edu
in the directory pub/ficus/johnh.
Jacoby---the big picture
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Dontspace is intended to be one of a family of Tk-based solitaire
games. It's a descendent of Klondike; eventually these two programs
(and others) will share the same source code base.
The name for this family of programs is "Jacoby" after Oswald Jacoby,
a noted bridge player.
Dontspace---the hidden agenda
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Unix has a number of strong technical features, however other
operating systems have a strong market share. Since operating systems
vendors have begun to ship games as a standard part of their operating
systems (and perhaps as the most enjoyed part, at that), dontspace,
together with klondike and xbomb, represent my attempt to keep Unix
feature-for-feature equivalent to other operating systems.
Release Notes
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Dontspace 1.0---The first network release.
Ispell Words
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Ispell LocalWords: Dontspace README Exp NT Tk wishx Tcl ftp berkeley tcl tk
Ispell LocalWords: tclX POSIX dontspace Ispell LocalWords Sager xbomb
Credit
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This program was written by John Heidemann, but it employs
bitmaps from Gary Sager. Thanks to him for his contribution.
Comments on dontspace should be sent to:
-John Heidemann
<johnh@ficus.cs.ucla.edu>
4680 Boleter Hall
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90024