OT: Help on a few fronts...

From: vance_at_neurotica.com <(vance_at_neurotica.com)>
Date: Mon Sep 15 19:40:00 2003

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Roger Merchberger wrote:

> Otay, I need a little personal help, and help for a couple of friends,
> so I'll lump them all into a single message, to minimize the s:n
> ratio...
>
> 1) For me: This may actually be on-topic, but if not, it's close. I have
> a from-scratch linux installation, and I'm trying to find the source
> code for the (original) X-windows solitare game of Spider. I don't have
> Gnome or KDE running (Actually, it's FVWM2... ;-) and so many of the
> newer games won't compile unless I add .5G of libraries... which I'm
> unwilling to add for 1 frelling game. Anyone have the source tarball on
> an ancient linux distro somewhere? (I tried all mine, and couldn't find
> it... :-( )

I believe this game is in the sample code for the XView toolkit. If you
can find that toolkit's source, it should have that game's.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Mon Sep 15 2003 - 19:40:00 BST