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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