Author: Pete Galati
Date: 07:45:25 08/09/99
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On August 09, 1999 at 09:21:20, Robert Pope wrote: >On August 09, 1999 at 00:47:32, Pete Galati wrote: > >>On August 08, 1999 at 23:11:21, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote: >> >>>Could someone post here a good example of winboard.ini file with many >>>engines?(as many as possible). Some of the engines I would like to see working >>>with my Winboard 4.0.2 do not work. >>>Particularly I'd like to see: DerBringer, Gromit, The Crazy Bishop, Exchess, >>>Rival, Arasan 51a, Cilian, Fortress, LambChop, Little Goliath, Phalanx, >>>Inmichess, SSEChess... >>>Is Diogenes Winboard compatible? >>> >>>Thanks, >>>A. Ponti >> >>I just threw a bunch out again, I no longer have Rival, Arasan, or SSE. But for >>an example from someone who knows this stuff much better than most of us, see >>Frank Quinsinsky's site at this paticular branch of it: >>http://members.xoom.com/VolkerPi/schach/uebersicht.htm and download a file >>called config.zip because it has examples of all this stuff that I wish I had >>months ago. Good examples. What I have is below. A very good program that you're >>missing is Zchess, if you're interested go to: >>http://myweb.worldnet.net/~fzibi/zchess.htm & also get his bigger book version >>(it's not that big) >> >>Pete >> >>/firstChessProgramNames="wCrafty-16_6 /fd=\"C:\\crafty16.6w >>Crafty1 /fd=\"C:\\crafty16.15w >>\"Gromit20 -xboardquiet\" /fd=c:\\gromit-w.ccc >>\"Phalanx -t8960 -r900\" /fd=c:\\Phalanx >>Fortress /fd=\"C:\\fort-css >>Comet-wb /fd=\"C:\\comet2 >>\"Exchess xb hash 8\" /fd=c:\\exchess.wb >>\"Inmi216\" /fd=c:\\inmi3 >>\"AnMon426 xboard\" /fd=c:\\AnMon426 >>\"Bringer /winboard\" /fd=c:\\bringer2 >>LGol2000 /fd=\"C:\\lgol2002 >>\"Tristram wb hash=8m\" /fd=c:\\tristram >>Zchess /fd=\"C:\\zchess >>Pierre14 /fd=\"C:\\pierre >>Pierre17 /fd=\"C:\\pierre1.7 >>Skaki /fd=\"C:\\skaki >>GNUChess >>" >>/secondChessProgramNames="wCrafty-16_6 /sd=\"C:\\crafty16.6w >>Crafty1 /sd=\"C:\\crafty16.15w >>\"Gromit20 -xboardquiet\" /sd=c:\\gromit-w.ccc >>\"Phalanx -t8960 -r900\" /sd=c:\\Phalanx >>Fortress /sd=\"C:\\fort-css >>Comet-wb /sd=\"C:\\comet2 >>\"Exchess xb hash 8\" /sd=c:\\exchess.wb >>\"Inmi216\" /sd=c:\\inmi3 >>\"AnMon426 xboard\" /sd=c:\\AnMon426 >>\"Bringer /winboard\" /sd=c:\\bringer2 >>LGol2000 /sd=\"C:\\lgol2002 >>\"Tristram wb hash=8m\" /sd=c:\\tristram >>Zchess /sd=\"C:\\zchess >>Pierre14 /sd=\"C:\\pierre >>Pierre17 /sd=\"C:\\pierre1.7 >>Skaki /sd=\"C:\\skaki >>GNUChess >>" > >I had a hard time getting mine set up initially, too. Is there a rhyme or >reason to the \ and "? I am looking specifically in the differences in calling >LGol2000, Tristram, and Bringer. > >Thanks, >Rob That's all explained in Winboard's help files, and I no longer remember what they said. but the reason that some of the programs are done different in my file is because with programs where I used command line parameters then the command line is somewhat enclosed you might say as in: \"Tristram wb hash=8m\" /sd=c:\\tristram or in the case of Bringer, that's a special case where it's a bit different: \"Bringer /winboard\" /sd=c:\\bringer2 Both of those styles are based on what I borrowed from info provided by Frank Schneider's Gromit program and I keep borrowing it's style: \"Gromit20 -xboardquiet\" /sd=c:\\gromit-w.ccc But when I have no command line stuff to throw in there I use like with Crafty or Pierre, like this: Pierre17 /sd=\"C:\\pierre1.7 But if you look at someone like Frank Quinsinsky's ini file the ALL of his programs use that general Gromit style, and this makes more sense than my ini file. That's why I'd recommend downloading and seeing his config.zip file. You have to realize that my winboard.ini file has remnants from an earlier version of Winboard copied and pasted in to the current ini file because I don't feel like rebuilding it from scratch or making all of the programs consistant just so that something that's tucked into the backround will look good. As for the double \\ in the path info, that's because \ is a bit of an escape character in C, so the first \ tells the program that a special character is coming up, and then the program can only see the one \, that's the best I can explain that. Pete
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