Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:26:41 05/27/99
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On May 27, 1999 at 18:44:29, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >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 Actually, as I have said before, NT is pretty decent. It is 95/98 that suck with a dozen straws. :) and I can tell you horror stories about Solaris too, if interested. :) But there aren't many Solaris users so the topic is generally not very well discussed...
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