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pegsolitaire

PEGSOLITAIRE(6) 						   User Commands						   PEGSOLITAIRE(6)

NAME

       pegsolitaire - An education game similar to Hi-Q

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  was written for the Debian/Ubuntu distributions because the original program does not include them.	Please see the in-
       game help menu instead.

       pegsolitaire is an educational puzzle game.

       The goal of the game is to remove pegs from the board leaving a single peg in the centre hole.  Pegs are removed from the board	by  making
       "jumps".   You  can jump over a peg with another peg horizontally or vertically (not diagonally!).  When you jump over a peg, it is removed
       from the board.	Multiple jumps with one peg are allowed.

   Usage:
	      pegsolitaire [OPTION...]

   Help Options:
       -?, --help
	      Show help options

       --help-all
	      Show all help options

       --help-gtk
	      Show GTK+ Options

       --help-bonobo-activation
	      Show Bonobo Activation options

       --help-gnome
	      Show GNOME options

       --help-gnome-session
	      Show session management options

   Application Options:
       -x, --x=X
	      X location of window

       -y, --y=Y
	      Y location of window

       --display=DISPLAY
	      X display to use

AUTHOR

       pegsolitaire was written by Ben Asselstine.

       This manual page was written by Barry deFreese <bddebian@comcast.net>.

pegsolitaire 0.0.4						     May 2008							   PEGSOLITAIRE(6)