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Subject: Re: Winboard / Crafty Installer

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 13:12:10 08/04/00

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On August 04, 2000 at 12:08:52, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I just spend half an hour explaining to someone on Fics how to use crafty with
>winboard. Are there any autoinstallers out there that would search for winboard,
>copy crafty into that directory and add the needed lines to winboard.ini,  or
>any other easier way for beginners to use crafty ?
>
>Georg :)

The easiest thing to do is give them the url for the Winboard forum
http://f11.parsimony.net/forum16635/ and Frank has configuration files with
winboard.ini for download at
http://www.in-trier.de/~quisinsky/schach/download.htm so you can use it for an
example and edit it to apply to your computer and program locations I guess.

It's only confusing the first time you do it, and there's loads of help
available.

I never heard of an autoinstaller to do the work for you.  I guess the easiest
thing to do would be to put Crafty and it's 2 books into the Winboard directory
and add it to the ini file, but you'd sure want to add an rc file to turn
Crafty's log off so that it wouldn't take over the directory with piles of log
files.  I never tried running Crafty that way though, I'm sure it's a bad idea.

Pete



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