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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.

       roundCards (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.

       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.

                                  30 Jan 1990                        spider(1)