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Subject: Re: CCC2 and the 'X' factor

Author: Jon Dart

Date: 11:57:52 11/06/00

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On November 06, 2000 at 13:09:48, Dann Corbit wrote:

>Why do so many programs have an "x" at the end of their names?  What is it
>supposed to mean?  Is it eXperimental or ???

Gnuchess version 4 had an executable named "gnuchessx", where the
"x" was for "xboard", I believe. This distinguished the winboard or
xboard compatible version from other versions. See "man gnuchess"
on your favorite UNIX box.

I also called my Winboard executable arasanx to distinguish it
from the native Windows GUI version.

--Jon



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