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Date:      Wed, 05 Mar 2014 18:51:44 -0600
From:      Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: a low-level question; and one about ASCII solitaire [klondike]
Message-ID:  <1394067104.26955.91116957.768321E3@webmail.messagingengine.com>

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On Mar 5, 2014, at 18:17, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:

> =====
> Organization: Thought Unlimited.  Public service Unix since 1986.
> Of_Interest: With 27 years  of service  to the  Unix  community.
> 
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 05:36:57PM -0600, Mark Felder wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014, at 16:37, Gary Kline wrote:
>>> anybody know where the ASCII klondike prog
>>> 	is?   ...save my shoulder.
>>> 
>> 
>> The ports tree subversion repository goes back as far as you want. I
>> have been poking around but don't see anything that looks like your
>> game, but maybe you'll recognize the port name if you see it yourself.
>> You can either do an svn checkout and specify a very early revision or
>> browse it through the svnweb:
>> 
>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/?pathrev=500
>> 
>> That will show you revision 500 of the ports tree from back in 1994.
>> 
>> Hope that helps
> 
> 
> 	thanks, mark, but I spent several *hours* digging thru the 
> 	collection of games from the fbsd ports tree.  it was called
> 	"sol"-- or else I renamed the makefile.  ---then again, it 
> 	may have NOT Been a BSD program.  [?]  I have found a solitaire
> 	game that plays in the terminal.  or  console using twm.
> 
> 	gary
> 
> 	ps. I am not/never have been much into "games": this was/remains
> 	the exception. :_)

Could it have been canfield from the bsdgames port?

Or perhaps solitaire / klondike from the old vga_cardgames pack? 

https://feld.me/pub/vga_cardgames-1.3.1.tgz

You've made this an interesting treasure hunt, but it has to be out
there on the internet.
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