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Re: Perl 'Expert' Quiz-of-the-Week #17 [but not a solution, yet]: msg#00069

Subject: Re: Perl 'Expert' Quiz-of-the-Week #17 [but not a solution, yet]
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 12:42:35AM +0200, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
> Ben Okopnik writes:
> [...]
> > Didn't work for me - no image on the page (Mozilla/5.0 Linux).
> 
> And I am supposed to debug your browser? :-)  

Nope - just letting you know your site doesn't work with a common
browser. :)

> Is "enable Java" checked in 
> the browser prefs? 

Yep.

> Same combo worked fine for me using java RTE 
> "1.4.2_03" (type 'java --showversion').

ben-syK+pwpC7L4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:~$ java --showversion
Unrecognized option: --showversion
Could not create the Java virtual machine.
ben-syK+pwpC7L4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:~$ java -version
java version "1.3.1"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build
Blackdown-1.3.1-FCS)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build Blackdown-1.3.1-FCS, mixed mode)

> > I don't want to spoil anyone's fun, but as long as other-language
> > solutions aren't considered spoilers... doesn't "gtans" already do
> > a superset of this?
> >
> > <http://gtans.sourceforge.net/>
> 
> Different puzzle shapes aren't they (or maybe that is adjustable)?

Looks like it. The tile definition files, in
/usr/share/games/gtans/figures, are plain text and more or less the
format you'd expect. Sample:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
 gTans v1.0 83
 1.000000e+00 1.000000e+00 1024
 p 3 0 1.438904e+00 7.119497e+00 57344
 p 2 0 1.938904e+00 6.119497e+00 0
 p 4 0 2.105571e+00 7.286164e+00 32768
 p 0 0 2.853117e+00 5.148092e+00 57344
 p 0 0 4.933998e+00 6.952830e+00 16384
 p 1 0 3.795926e+00 6.090901e+00 49152
 p 4 0 3.146011e+00 6.855199e+00 24576
 
 1.000000e+00 1.000000e+00 1024
 p 0 0 2.716981e+00 6.749326e+00 32768
 p 3 1 2.883648e+00 5.415993e+00 24576
 p 0 0 4.050314e+00 5.082659e+00 0
 p 4 0 5.050314e+00 5.082659e+00 32768
 p 2 0 4.883648e+00 5.915993e+00 0
 p 4 0 4.716981e+00 6.749326e+00 0
 p 1 0 5.383648e+00 7.082659e+00 57344
 
[ 81 more shapes elided ] 
------------------------------------------------------------------------


* Ben Okopnik * okopnik.freeshell.org * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette *
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