Subject: ANNOUNCE: xpat-1.2, xpat2-alpha
From: Michael Bischoff <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 18:16:18 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

Hello,
I have uploaded xpat-1.2 to sunsite.unc.edu.
It should appear in Linux/x11/games/strategic soon.
This is intended to be the final release of xpat (with the hint-bug fixed!).
There are no new features compared to xpat-1.0.
Again, xpat comes in 3 archives (bin, dat, src):
-rw-rw-r--   1 ftp      20          87755 Apr  7 16:22 xpat-1.2-src.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--   1 ftp      20         115731 Apr  7 16:24 xpat-1.2-bin.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--   1 ftp      20          88576 Apr  7 16:25 xpat-1.2-dat.tar.gz
You need either src and dat or bin and dat.
The binary distribution requires libXpm-3.4 and libc-4.5.21.

xpat-1.2 will be uploaded to tsx-11 soon.

For new features, you can test the first alpha release of xpat2.
It is in pub/in on mo.math.nat.tu-bs.de as xpat2-0.8.tar.gz.

Features of xpat2 include:
- new rule sets (Midnight Oil, Monte Carlo, Idiot's Delight)
- loadable keyboard tables and messages (needed for internationalisation)
- Athena Widget support (looks best with Xaw3d!)
- online help (Xaw version only)
- antialiased rank and suit symbols
- configuration files for card layout

Call for volunteers:
In xpat2, every button and message is configurable.
I'd like to include your personal national language application-defaults
and message files into the final distribution.
If you write one, please mail them to me. ([email-masked])

Happy hacking!
       Michael

LSM entry of xpat-1.2 follows:
==============================================================================
PKGNAME:    xpat                                
TITLE:      Generic Patience Game for X-Windows 
VERSION:    1.2                       
DESC1:      xpat is a one-person cards game which understands different       
DESC2:      rule sets, for example Spider, Klondike, Seahaven Towers.         
DESC3:      Using the XPM-library, colour cards are possible.                 
AUTHOR:     Heiko Eissfeldt and Michael Bischoff                              
MAINTBY:    the authors ([email-masked])                            
MAINTAT1:   tsx-11.mit.edu                                                    
PATHFILE1:  linux/sources/usr.bin.X11/xpat-1.2*                              
MAINTAT2:   sunsite.unc.edu
PATHFILE2:  Linux/x11/games/strategic/xpat-1.2*
REQUIRED1:  X-Windows. Binary uses libc-4.5.21, XFree-2.1 and libXpm-3.4      
REQUIRED2:  To recompile, you need an ANSI Compiler (K&R won't do)            
REQUIRED3:  optional: Sound card support                                      
COPYPOLICY: Freely distributable
KEYWORDS:   games, patience, Spider, Klondike, FreeCell, Gypsy, Seahaven Twrs 
APPROXSIZE: 3 times 100 KB  
LAST3REL:   0.7, 1.0, 1.1                                                   
COMMENT1:   xpat-1.2 is distributed in 3 archives: Source in xpat-1.2-src.tar.
COMMENT2:   gz, binaries (and manuals) in xpat-1.2-bin.tar.gz, additional card
COMMENT3:   images (colour and monochrome), sound in xpat-1.2-dat.tar.gz      
CHECKEDBY:                                 
DATE:       04/07/94 
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