1README.bindist - Fri Mar 17 14:02:01 MET 2000
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3xcheckers lets you play checkers in an X Window against others over the
4internet and against the computer.
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8To run the application type:
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10  ./xcheckers
11or (to make use of a big screen)
12  ./xcheckers -s big.xpm
13or (to have it look arcade)
14  ./xcheckers -s stars.xpm
15or (to connect to icds)
16  ./xcheckers -i
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18and a checkerboard will be displayed, while simplech from this terminal
19will prompt you to enter a colour and a level; then you can move the
20pieces with the mouse.
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24When moving the binaries and pictures, make sure to move xcheckersrc to
25~/.xcheckersrc and to correct the paths.
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27To make connecting to icds the default add "xcheckers.icds: true" to your
28~/.xcheckersrc. The manpage can tell you more about resources. Read the
29manpage like this: nroff -man xcheckers.man | more.
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31You may have to set icds to display the board as style 5. From v1.3 on,
32xcheckers does this by itself, when encountering a board style 1.
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34To run the engine on a different computer choose -icds -host some.host.net
35-port 23, log in to your shell account and start the engine; there may be
36some additional echo.
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38To have the application called from a window manager menu or button, enter
39"rxvt -e xcheckers" as its command.
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43xcheckers is free software, for details see accompanying file COPYING.
44xcheckers is partly based on xics-2.3 bye Shirish Chinchalkar, Urban
45Koistinen, Nelson Minar and Patrick Surry. Courtesy of Martin Fierz, this
46contains simplech, a strong search engine. Check out the icds homepage:
47http://sonic.digital-web.net/~lionman/
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51xcheckers homepage is at http://arton.cunst.net/xcheckers/
52Send suggestions, bug reports and bug fixes to <pch(a)myzel.net>
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