spider(1)                 UNIX System V(30 Jan 1990)                  spider(1)


NAME
      spider - play double deck solitaire


SYNOPSIS
      spider [ -savefile filename ] [ -toolkitoption...  ]

DESCRIPTION
      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.

OPTIONS
      -savefile 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
              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".

      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


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              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.

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, 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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