     XQUINTO(l)                                                       XQUINTO(l)
                                     1 Apr. 1992

     NAME
          xquinto - color all the squares: game.

     SYNOPSIS
          xquinto [size-options]

     DESCRIPTION
          xquinto has a rectangular (default, 5 by 5) board with squares on it.
          Clicking on any square reverses its color, and that of its neighbors
          that share an edge (not the diagonal ones). The object is, starting
          with a board in one color, to reach a board of the reversed color.

          There are two versions of the game: one using X11 and the other using
          XView.

          The size of the game, etc. can be changed using command line options:

          -width n
               Board is n squares wide (default 5).

          -height m
               Board is m squares high (default 5).

          -square n
               Board is n by n, square.

          -showmove
               Specifying this option will put a small 'o' on all the squares
               the player has clicked so far.

          -mono
               To play on a monochrome monitor.

          -colorN color
               where N is 1, 2, or 3, for the color of the squares in the normal
               and reversed form, and of the 'o' used to mark moves (defaults:
               red, blue and yellow).

          Keyboard commands useful for the X11 version are:

          m    magnify size of board by 1 unit (maximum 20 by 20).

          s    shrink size of board by 1 unit.

          h, H decrease (increase) height of board by 1 unit.

          w, W decrease (increase) width of board by 1 unit.

          q    quit the game.

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     XQUINTO(l)                                                       XQUINTO(l)
                                     1 Apr. 1992

          c    clear all moves, restart the game.

          Resources that can be used for the X11 version in the .Xdefaults file are:

          xquinto.colorN
               where N is 1, 2, or 3, for the color of the squares in the normal
               and reversed form, and of the 'o' used to mark moves.

          xquinto.mono (default: false)

          xquinto.showmove (default: false)

     NOTES
          The 5 by 5 (default) case can be solved. The idea for the game came
          from a similar one I saw on a NeXT machine.

     BUGS
          The program has only been tested on a SunIPC with SunOS 4.1.1. But it
          seems to work.

     AUTHOR
          Dev Joneja, Columbia Business School, April 1992
          dj7@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu

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