pysol6

Usage

Overview

PySol is an exciting solitaire card game collection. Its features include support for more than 200 distinct games, very nice look and feel, unlimited undo & redo, load & save games, player statistics, hint system, demo games, support for user written plug-ins, samples and background music, integrated help browser and lots of documentation.

PySol comes with an integrated help browser. Just press <F1> after the program has started.

PySol is written in 100% pure Python and runs out-of-the-box on Unix (X11), Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP and Macintosh platforms.

Files

PySol searches its data files in a number of directories including:

    the current directory
    /usr/share/pysol
    /usr/lib/pysol
    /usr/share/games/pysol
    /usr/lib/games/pysol
    /usr/games/share/pysol
    /usr/games/lib/pysol

Options are saved in ~/.pysol/options.dat

Statistics and logs are saved in ~/.pysol/statistics.dat

Additional plugins are searched in ~/.pysol/plugins/

Additional cardsets are searched in ~/.pysol/cardset-*/

Additional table tiles are searched in ~/.pysol/tiles/

Additional music songs are searched in ~/.pysol/music/

Environment

HOME is used for finding the users home directory.

USER and LOGNAME are used for getting the initial name of the player.

Additional cardsets are searched according to the path variable PYSOL_CARDSETS. You can specify multiple directories.

Additional table tiles are searched according to the path variable PYSOL_TILES. You can specify multiple directories.

Additional music songs are searched according to the path variable PYSOL_MUSIC. You can specify multiple directories.

Diagnostics

Exit status is normally 0.