Author: Heiner Marxen
Date: 14:40:52 04/04/02
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On April 04, 2002 at 17:01:15, Roy Eassa wrote: >On April 04, 2002 at 16:04:11, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>On April 04, 2002 at 15:45:30, James T. Walker wrote: >> >>>On April 04, 2002 at 14:54:09, Heiner Marxen wrote: >>> >>>>On April 04, 2002 at 12:49:04, James T. Walker wrote: >>>> >>>>>How do I get a working version of Chest?? >>>>>Jim >>>> >>>>See http://www.drb.insel.de/~heiner/Chess/chest.html >>>> >>>>I offer source, only (ANSI-C). >>>>Dann Corbit also offers win-32 binaries (my page has a link). >>>> >>>>Cheers, >>>>Heiner >>> >>>It seems like a nice program to have/use. I just don't feel like taking a 3 >>>semester hour course in how to get it up and running. >>>Jim >> >> >>It looks like you have to take the EPD that's already in your Windows clipboard, >>paste it into a text file, save the text file to disk, then run Chest from the >>command line, giving it the path to the text file you just created/saved. >> >>I think it would be good to be able to paste a single EPD right into the command >>line as a parameter, but I don't see that that's an option. Permitting this >>would facilitate creating a GUI front end (which otherwise would have to use a >>temporary file or something as a way to get the EPD into Chest). >> >>I was a command line jockey in the '70s and '80s, but have given up my "memorize >>and type" ways for "recognize and point" (i.e., GUI). > > >Wait ... wait ... I am beginning to see the light! > >Let's get RID of steering wheels for cars. Cars should be steered by a command >line interface! Of course, why didn't I see it before! > >automobile.com -buick -steer -right -degrees -80 > >And televisions too ... you change the channel by typing: > >television.exe -living room -channel -change 003 > >That's so much better than pressing a button or two! > >And if you have an itch to scratch, don't reach up and scratch it. Just type: > >c:\program files\human body\me.exe -skin -scratch d:\my itches\forehead.txt > >(Of course you have already saved details about the itch in a text file called >forehead.txt.) If you don't like Chest the way it is... just don't use it (pun intended). I happen to be a CLI type, have written a program I use for myself, and give it away to anybody who wants it, for free. That should be ok. If you would offer me a GUI program, I probably would not want to use it. That's of course my problem, not yours. Fine. I have learned to make good use of Unix shells & tools, I'm happy with that, and will stick to it, where possible. You appear to have found a quite different approach, making good used of GUIs, and appear to be happy with that. Fine! Let's coexist ;-) I'll now go and fetch a beer in the pub, and will calm down, again. Cheers, Heiner.
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