Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 12:42:20 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: a low-level question; and one about ASCII solitaire [klondike] Message-ID: <20140306204220.GA32452@ethic.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <98DAE440-42E9-4446-8FBE-863C0FC78B38@FreeBSD.org> References: <20140305223722.GA17759@ethic.thought.org> <1394062617.6084.91094977.11E29FF2@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20140306001714.GA20388@ethic.thought.org> <98DAE440-42E9-4446-8FBE-863C0FC78B38@FreeBSD.org>
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===== 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 06:39:43PM -0600, Mark Felder wrote: > > 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. noJoy. im glad I didn't claim 100% certainty that your tarball was *it* instead on saying 90pc. it looked as tho I could edit out every case of *MOUSE* and come up with what I wanted. it wasn't until 21:30 yesterday that I realized what the code a_nd Makefile werre doing. Nope. still searching. (whatitname--Google, ignores what I type in the search-space.) ... . ______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Twenty-seven years of service to the Unix community.
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