     spider(1)                                                         spider(1)
                                     30 Jan 1990

     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
          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
          -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
                  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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     spider(1)                                                         spider(1)
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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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