Scrabble for YDL or OSX??

[Zenzele Bell]

for OS X, THERE'S X-Words Deluxe:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/xwordsdeluxe.html

zenzele

--- Stefan Bruda <bruda@ubishops.ca> wrote:
> At 19:38 -0500 on 2002-10-27 Beartooth wrote:
>  >
>  > 	I found
>  > 
>  >
>
http://www.belgarath.demon.co.uk/programs/index.html#XScrabble
>  > 
>  > 	but [...] is a .tar.gz file, which I doubt I
> have the
>  > sophistication to cope with;
> 
> You can install it, it's not that hard.  I just did
> the same in about
> ten minutes, as follows:
> 
> After downloading the file, I issued the commands:
> 
>   zcat xscrabble.tar.gz | tar xvf -
>   cd xscrabble
> 
> At this point, I took a peek at the README file, but
> in a nutshell you
> can continue as follows:
> 
>   xmkmf
>   make Makefiles
>   make
> 
> Then, as root:
> 
>   cp XScrabble.ad
> /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XScrabble
>   chmod go+r XScrabble
>   mkdir /usr/local/lib/Xscrabble
>   cp OSPD3.gz /usr/local/lib/Xscrabble
>   cp scrabble_permutations /usr/local/lib/Xscrabble
>   chmod go+r /usr/local/lib/Xscrabble/OSPD3.gz
>   chmod go+r
> /usr/local/lib/Xscrabble/scrabble_permutations
>   cp xscrabble.scores /usr/local/lib/Xscrabble
>   chmod go+rw /usr/local/lib/xscrabble.scores
>   cd src
>   cp xscrabble /usr/local/bin/
>   cp xscrab /usr/local/bin/
> 
> Finally (again, as root), open the file
> /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XScrabble in your
> favourite editor and chage
> the string
> 
>   /usr/local/bin
> 
> to
> 
>   /usr/local/bin/Xscrabble
> 
> in those three lines at the beginning of the file
> that start with
> 
>   XScrabble.dictfile:
>   XScrabble.permfile:
> 
> and
> 
>   XScrabble.scorefile:
> 
> That's it, issue as a normal user the command
> 
>   xscrabble
> 
> and enjoy.  As a matter of fact, looks a bit slow to
> me, but (at the
> first look anyway) playable.
> 
> Stefan
> 
> -- 
> If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it
> would be; but as
> it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
>     --Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
> 
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