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Subject: Re: Crafty 16.8?

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 15:44:29 05/27/99

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On May 27, 1999 at 18:20:17, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On May 27, 1999 at 10:06:47, Owen Lyne wrote:
>
>>I just downloaded crafty-16.8.tar.gz, but the main.c
>>file includes only comments up to 16.7 - what's
>>happening here? It compiles OK for me and introduces
>>itself as 16.8, but what's the difference between 16.7 and
>>16.8?
>>
>>Owen
>
>Sorry..  16.7 had one serious bug in the eval function.  I edited something
>(using VI) on a sun workstation connected to my linux box, and the sun did
>not quite display the file.  A dd command (delete line) deleted the right line
>on the screen, but Solaris was confused as to how the screen looked.  And the
>screen looked ok, but the wrong line was canned.
>
>16.8 fixed that...  now to get it compiled...  don't bother with 16.7,
>although it plays reasonably, it has problems with white rooks and open
>files as that code is hosed.

Were it on Windows, you'd blamed MS in much less politely words :-)... I'll
compile it and send to you in several minutes.

Eugene



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