1README - Fri Mar 17 13:57:53 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 compile the sources, install binaries and run the application type
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10    xmkmf -a                  #     create makefiles
11    make                      #     start compilation
12    sh test.sh                #     test binaries
13    su (yr. secret)           #     get root privileges
14    make install              #     install binaries, defaults
15    make install.man          #       \ and man pages
16    exit                      #       \ for systemwide execution
17    xcheckers                 #     run the application
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19and a checkerboard will be displayed, which is partly obscured by the
20help window. Select "new game *" from the buttons and you better consider
21your moves well.
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23In the terminal window you will see a lot of engine output. Xcheckers
24does nothing to hide this, its as if you called the engine alone. Use
25it to see whats going on.
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29To customize the buttons edit your ~/.xcheckersrc. For each button there
30is a label and a call resource. The manpage can tell you more about it.
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32To make connecting to icds the default add "xcheckers.icds: true" to your
33~/.xcheckersrc. You may have to set icds to display the board as style 5.
34From v1.3 on, xcheckers does this by itself, on encountering a board style 1.
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36Today there is no permanent ICDS on the internet. Contact Micheal Rohrer
37if you want to setup your own. It isnt that hard.
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39To run the engine on a different computer choose -icds -host some.host.net
40-port 23, log in to your shell account and start the engine; there may be
41some additional echo.
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43To have the application called from a window manager menu or button, enter
44"xterm -e xcheckers" as its command.
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48Additional Makefile targets are
49    make dist   : tar the sources to ../xcheckers-[version].tar.gz
50    make bindist: tar the binaries to ../xcheckers-[vrsn].[pltfrm].tar.gz
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54xcheckers is free software, for details see accompanying file COPYING.
55xcheckers is partly based on xics-2.3 bye Shirish Chinchalkar, Urban
56Koistinen, Nelson Minar and Patrick Surry. Courtesy of Martin Fierz, this
57contains simplech, a strong search engine. Check out the icds homepage:
58http://sonic.digital-web.net/~lionman/
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62xcheckers homepage is at http://arton.cunst.net/xcheckers/
63Send suggestions, bug reports and bug fixes to <pch(a)myzel.net>
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