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Subject: Thanks Tim!!

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 10:27:53 08/13/99

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I thought this thread had died out and I was you name so I stopped and read it.
I didn't realize I had done such a bad job of setting that up. I'll adjust it, I
want to put it more or less in alphabetical order anyhow. I copied your post to
a txt file, thanks.

Pete

On August 12, 1999 at 15:08:05, Tim Mann wrote:

>In Pete's example, whenever the engine doesn't need command line arguments of
>its own, he puts an unmatched \" after the /fd= or /sd=.  That's a bad idea. It
>would make sense to surround the argument to /fd= or /sd= with a *pair* of \"
>sequences, though, because the directory name might have a blank space in it;
>for instance, see the ArasanX case in the first example below.  Putting just one
>is a recipe for confusion, though; for instance, see SSEChess in the first
>example below, where if the closing \" were omitted, the /xreuse argument would
>be quoted too and included as part of the directory name.
>
>As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, it also seems good to surround the engine
>command line with a pair of \" sequences even when the engine doesn't need
>command line arguments, just for uniformity.
>
>Here is an extract from an ini file I've used myself, with \" added everywhere
>for uniformity.
>
>/firstChessProgramNames="\"GNUChess\"
>\"WCrafty-15_12\" /fd=\"D:\\Crafty\"
>\"ArasanX\" /fd=\"C:\\Program Files\\Arasan\\Arasan 4.1\"
>\"Comet-WB\" /fd=\"D:\\Comet\"
>\"EXchess xb\" /fd=\"D:\\EXchess\"
>\"SSEChess xboard\" /fd=\"D:\\SSEChess\" /xreuse
>\"TCB tcbxinit.cui\" /fd=\"d:\\tcb\"
>\"Tris336 wb hash=4m\" /fd=\"d:\\tristram\"
>"
>
>/secondChessProgramNames="\"GNUChess\"
>\"WCrafty-15_12\" /sd=\"D:\\Crafty\"
>\"ArasanX\" /sd=\"C:\\Program Files\\Arasan\\Arasan 4.1\"
>\"Comet-WB\" /sd=\"D:\\Comet\"
>\"EXchess xb\" /sd=\"D:\\EXchess\"
>\"SSEChess xboard\" /sd=\"D:\\SSEChess\" /xreuse
>\"TCB tcbxinit.cui\" /sd=\"d:\\tcb\"
>\"Tris336 wb hash=4m\" /sd=\"d:\\tristram\"
>"
>
>Here is a cleaned-up version of Pete's example:
>
>/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\"
>"



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