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Subject: Re: Using Autoplayer232 in a network or on one machine

Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen

Date: 03:22:14 02/26/00

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On February 26, 2000 at 04:54:01, Dan Newman wrote:

>On February 25, 2000 at 12:51:43, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>
>>I think that winboard also supports automatic play of 2 engines in a ip >network.  I never tried and i am not 100% sure. Does anybody know more ?
>>
>>Regards, Uli
>
>I've done it.  The main trick is making it work using Win9x since
>that OS doesn't come with any builtin rshell capablility.  There are
>a few rshell daemons available for Win9x around on the net.  The
>one I found sort of worked, but tended to eat the first few Winboard
>commands at the start of a match.  So I wrote my own pseudo-rshell
>server (by looking at what Winboard was doing).
>
>-Dan.

I am using pipes for network communication.
The problem is that in Win9x you can't open an existing pipe on another
computer. Do you have any ideas who to handle this?

Stefan



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