README
1XScrabble - X version of the popular board game, for 1 to 4 players.
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4Preparation:
5First edit the top of the 'build' script to adapt the installation
6directories according to your needs.
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8
9To build:
10 ./build bin
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12There are two directories of source code. The first to be built is part of
13Xc, the Control Panel Widget Set, v 1.3, copyright 1992 by Paul D.
14Johnston. The second is the main XScrabble code. This also contains the
15BarGraf widget from the Free Widget Foundation.
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17If all goes well, you should have two executables, xscrab and xscrabble in
18the src/ directory.
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20
21To install:
22 ./build install (installs binaries and main app-default file)
23 ./build lang XX (for any of the languages you'd like to have)
24Currently available packages (dictionaries, score and rules files) are
25English and French:
26 xscrabble_en.tgz
27 xscrabble_fr.tgz
28These packages must be downloaded from our ftp server
29 ftp://ftp.ac-grenoble.fr/ge/educational_games
30(along with the main package xscrabble-2.xx.tgz, which only contains
31the source for binary programs)
32
33The automatic installation only works if these packages are in the
34same subdirectory as the xscrabble-X.XX source directory from which
35you run the 'build' script. The language by default is the last
36language that has been installed (as usual, packages may actually be
37reinstalled several times without any trouble... reinstalling will
38just overwrite the previously installed files.)
39
40Please provide the current maintainer (J.-P.Demailly) with additional
41languages you would build. This only requires to translate the
42app-default file and provide a suitable dictionary (and optionally, a
43rules file).
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45
46To clean everything:
47 ./build clean
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49
50To run:
51
52Simply type xscrabble. This will bring up the setup box which will allow
53you to enter the language, names and displays and other info for the
54game to wish to play. Then click on the Start Game button, (or Load
55Previous if you're restarting a game). The main program, xscrab, will
56then be automatically called with the appropriate options.
57
58The game is saved after every turn (in "~/.xscrabble.save" of the
59person running it) and can be restarted by running xscrabble, entering
60exactly the same info, and hitting the Load Previous button.
61
62Have fun!
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64
65Original author:
66Matt Chapman.
67E-mail: matt@belgarath.demon.co.uk (no longer csuoq@csv.warwick.ac.uk)
68Web page: http://www.belgarath.demon.co.uk/
69Version 1.00: March 1997 (original version Nov 1994)
70
71(Added in the release notes of version 1.00:
72This was a student project, and there are not likely to be any future
73releases.)
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75
76Current maintainer:
77Jean-Pierre Demailly
78E-mail: demailly@fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr
79Web page: http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~demailly/
80Version 2.00: March 1998 (multilingual version)
81Version 2.10: July 2000 (bug fixes; improvements & automatic install)
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83FTP site:
84ftp://ftp.ac-grenoble.fr/ge/educational_games
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