This is a poker game you can play in your X-window.

The basic algorithm of the poker game is the same that of the Five card
Draw Poker written by /Nic Smith (csx43@uk.ac.kl.seq1)/.  I dont know
whether the address of csx43@uk.ac.kl.seq1 is correct or not.  The Nic
Smith's poker game used curses library to display the patterns of each cards.
You can find his curses-based poker game at some archive site, for example,
at ftp://nadia.ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp/d1/news.archive/games/v07/{v07i018,
v07i019,/v07i041}.

I rewritten his curses-based poker game.  You can find my small extension
of his game at my site ftp://sensor.kaist.ac.kr/pub/poker-1.0.tar.gz
In my extension, I modified curses part a little.

This game is another extension of his game to X-window.  Remember that the
basic algorithm of this poker game is identical to Nic Smith's.   But the
cards will be displayed colorfully, so you can play that game more
dynamically.

In this game the window will display the banners time-consumingly.  Please
forgive me for that.  The original intention of rewritting the poker program
was that I wanted to draw a huge character, for example, a 5 inch 5 inch
character in my X-window which was created by XCreateSimpleWindow(); I think
you can easily disable the banner parts of this game.

Since I am here in KAIST temporarily, I will leave here soon, so that my
site can easily escape my control. Therefore if you are an archiver of 
freeware or so, please visit my site and get my source and distribute as
you like.

ps_italic.c file was obtained by using the data of
/usr/local/lib/ghostscript/fonts/some.pfb. I did not include the converter
program.  If you are interested in that program, please mail me.

1997/8/26
Hong Hunsoo
department of physics
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
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