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intro - introduction to games and demos
The manual pages
with the section 6 suffix are for recreational and educational programs
normally found in the directory /usr/games; however, Silicon Graphics currently
does not ship any such programs, so this directory does not exist. The manual
pages with the suffix 6D are the demonstration programs found in the directory
/usr/demos/General_Demos, /usr/demos/O2 or /usr/demos/OCTANE Beginning
with the 6.3 release of IRIX, these demos can be accessed from several mechanisms:
- from a web-based interface, which can be started using the toolchest Find;
Demos menu option - from the system iconcatalog, which can be started using
the toolchest Find; Iconcatalog; Demos - from buttonfly (/usr/demos/buttonfly)
- and directly from the directories /usr/demos/General_Demos, /usr/demos/O2
and /usr/demos/OCTANE Both buttonfly and the directory noted above can
be accessed using the Find; File QuickFind menu option or Selected; File
QuickFind menu option available from the system toolchest The availability
of these programs and the data they use will vary from system to system
and from release to release.
The following error message (or something
similiar) may appear when exiting out of the demos improperly: XIO: fatal
IO error 131 (Connection reset by peer) on X server "localhost:0.0" after
44 requests (44 known processed) with 0 events remaining. Ignore this error
message. The system has not been affected in any way. The proper way to exit
out of demos is by : 1) typing the ESC key or 2) clicking on the right
mouse button and selecting Exit from the menu For more information, please
read the man pages for a particular demo.
buttonfly(6D)
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