Author: pete
Date: 14:03:46 08/04/00
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On August 04, 2000 at 16:12:10, Pete Galati wrote: >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 There has been a very brief discussion of making rpm-package for xboard/Crafty recently i.e. but not much follow-up ( little market anyway ) but I do remember it as the original poster was very positive it was something people were desperately looking for . This is in fact near to zero work and I could easily provide sth like that ; I suspect though that most people who are able to install and run Linux won't have much difficulty setting up some xboard-engine anyway ... Unfortunately I couldn't do the same for a windows environment ( where there really might be a need for something similar ) . I suspect quite a few people would be interested in a crafty-setup ( for windows ) similar to the Arasan one and it looks like this should be no miracle either to someone with some basic insight ... ; any volunteers ?
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