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Subject: Re: To Sarah and John: CM8K+auto232, maybe a workaround

Author: Chessfun

Date: 11:29:21 09/11/00

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On September 11, 2000 at 12:41:34, ujecrh wrote:

>Sarah, this is probably an unnecessary debate as CM is in its final testing
>phase. Engineering usually does not want to add functionalities to a beta and it
>makes sense but maybe there is a way to satisfy both of you.
>
>John, have the development team ever considered using a third-party auto232
>interface ? Several of them exist and, what may be very interesting for you,
>some are provided as winboard-engines which is something you already support for
>CM8K.
>
>Maybe, if you can get an agreement with the author (he provides it for free),
>there is just a possibility to integrate the auto232 winboard engine in the
>package, after some test/tweak/configuration and documentation you can maybe
>claim a experimental auto232 support in your product without much development
>(or maybe least in a patch).
>
>The CM development team can have a look to http://www-leibniz.imag.fr/~coulom/
>Extract from Remi Coulon page:
>"   wbengine0046.tar.gz (07.18.2000) Connect a winboard engine to an auto232
>opponent
>    a232eng0046.tar.gz (07.18.2000) Connect an auto232 engine to winboard "
>
>I do not say it is very easy or a perfect solution but just trying to be
>constructive here.
>
>Regards
>
>Ujecrh


As I said originally I don't believe installing A232 can be a lot
of work for the programmers, all top programs have it.
It may help them to use modify Remi's naturally with his permission,
though I am sure that John is aware that it exists.

Thanks.
Sarah.




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