Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:18:34 05/09/98
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On May 09, 1998 at 20:48:54, Stuart Cracraft wrote: > >On May 09, 1998 at 15:36:09, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote: > > >>Robofics is a comandline interface only, while xboard/zippy requier >>displaying the board on a x-server. The way I interpeded the original >>poster, he wanted to start something at his ISP (most likely running >>some UNIX) and not stay connected, but rather have the program running >>after he logs out. You can't do that with zippy, can you? >> > >Here's what I need to do (and can't use Unix to do it for various >reasons): >have my PC during the day play unattended games between my chess >program and people on ICS. At night, come back and debug. Then >let it run again the next day. > >My environment: Windows 95, GNU C, PPP account on Internet >Service Provider. > >That's the whole deal. I can't change any of my environment to suit the >end. > >Sounds like robofics is another Unix-only solution? > >--Stuart why not dual-boot your machine using lilo, and install linux, assuming you have a spare 500mb or so. then use linux to run using xboard, and mount the win95 filesystem under linux, copy the log files to that file system, then shutdown and reboot in win95 as needed. I run both here with the default on my home machine "boot win95" but I can boot linux easily when I want... and it solves *all* the problems you are having...
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