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SOL(6)				  Games Manual				  SOL(6)

NAME
     sol, solscores - Solitaire card game.

SYNOPSIS
     sol  [-hHV]  [-M  file]  [--help] [--highscores] [--version] [--merge-high-
     scores=file]

     solscores

DESCRIPTION
     sol is a card game for lonely persons, highly inspired by the game bundeled
     with a well known non-Unix "operating system".

     I assume the motive of the game is well known, so I won't go into	any  de-
     tails  here, but rather explain the controls of this particular implementa-
     tion.

     To select new cards from the upper left pile, click  on  the  back  of  the
     pile.  When  the pile is empty, click on the outline to turn it. The number
     of cards to draw may be either one or three, selectable  from  the  Options
     menu. You may turn the pile as many times you like.

     Cards  may  be moved in a drag--drop fashion. Click on a card with button 1
     (normally the left button), drag the card to the destination pile, and  re-
     lease  the  button.  You may drag several cards at once: Pointing at a card
     not at the top of a pile, will move the chosen card, and  all  cards  above
     it.

     You  may  double-click  on a card to move it to one of the four upper right
     target piles. The program will locate the correct pile,  if  any.	You  may
     also use button 2 or 3 for the same purpose.

     The  game features a site-wide highscore file, containing the top 200 play-
     ers. Each user may appear once only in the highscore table.  The  highscore
     list is sorted on the time taken to bring the game to a solution. Chose the
     Highscores menu to bring up a window containing the list. The window is up-
     dated every now and then. If you don't want to be part of the race, you may
     avoid being included in the highscore list from the Options menu.

     All options are stored in .solrc in your home directory, along with a count
     of  games	played,  and  the  time  used for playing. The latter two may be
     viewed from the About menu.

     For technical reasons, sol connects to the X11 server  before  parsing  op-
     tions.  This makes it impossible to eg. browse the highscore table using -H
     if no server is available.  To be able to see the scores in  such	a  case,
     solscores	produces  the same output as sol with option -H, but does no at-
     tempt on connecting to the X11 server.

   OPTIONS
     -h, --help
	    Print a usage message on standard output, and exit successfully.

     -H, --highscores
	    Dump the highscore list to standard output, and  exit  successfully.
	    Starting  sol  with  the  name solscore does the same thing, without
	    first connecting to the X11 server.

     -V, --version
	    Print version information on standard  output,  then  exit	success-
	    fully.

     -M, --merge-highscores=file
	    Merge  separate highscore file file into the default highscore file,
	    and exit successfully. Displays the new highscore table. This option
	    is for the game owner or root only.

X11 OPTIONS
     In addition to the above mentioned options, sol accepts  the  standard  X11
     toolkit options.

AUTHOR
     Sverre H. Huseby <shh@thathost.com>.

				22 February 1997			  SOL(6)

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