From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 6 00:52:00 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F1B0A74D for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 00:52:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com (out3-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C2A0061E for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 00:52:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 119CF20EB6; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 19:52:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 05 Mar 2014 19:52:00 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-type:mime-version:subject:from :in-reply-to:date:cc:content-transfer-encoding:message-id :references:to; s=smtpout; bh=TSyU65J6Ugce3CD2Ymn8BY/t0ow=; b=UX NA0LCZUUcE2vE2QCrgv4HqOc6GkmawVkeD7skatm+iBUbTWMXdiUeU7Pp/Yf0D2J +CalJzaJzTqUY1LUmBBn7rAKprVpyA3PqhCHaFQ++qMiRWVvCGUvhAKX8CVGfsg7 86c1cRkDqq80LoGFx4ACq8AVrAxjMGsBe7PX3QMmc= X-Sasl-enc: +0YKxKg4l2kGZ8ekQm+L4PhDpFU2h2HJfEetSEDG9UjL 1394067119 Received: from [172.16.1.145] (unknown [68.117.126.78]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 8A78068015B; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 19:51:59 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.2 \(1874\)) Subject: Re: a low-level question; and one about ASCII solitaire [klondike] From: Mark Felder In-Reply-To: <20140306001714.GA20388@ethic.thought.org> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 18:41:13 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <5AAAC808-0AE1-4208-A348-766D0AA3366D@FreeBSD.org> References: <20140305223722.GA17759@ethic.thought.org> <1394062617.6084.91094977.11E29FF2@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20140306001714.GA20388@ethic.thought.org> To: Gary Kline X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1874) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 00:52:01 -0000 On Mar 5, 2014, at 18:17, Gary Kline wrote: > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. > Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community. >=20 > 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. >>>=20 >>=20 >> 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: >>=20 >> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/?pathrev=3D500 >>=20 >> That will show you revision 500 of the ports tree from back in 1994. >>=20 >> Hope that helps >=20 >=20 > thanks, mark, but I spent several *hours* digging thru the=20 > collection of games from the fbsd ports tree. it was called > "sol"-- or else I renamed the makefile. ---then again, it=20 > may have NOT Been a BSD program. [?] I have found a solitaire > game that plays in the terminal. or console using twm. >=20 > gary >=20 > 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?=20 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.=