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Subject: Re: Draft of revised xboard/winboard engine protocol

Author: Edward Screven

Date: 15:17:53 12/08/00

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On December 08, 2000 at 10:52:05, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>THis is an engine issue, _not_ an xboard protocol issue.  IE crafty has a
>.craftyrc file (unix) or crafty.rc (windows) that it reads at the start of
>a game.  This is the place to do all of this stuff.  Xboard/Winboard needs to
>handle communication between engines, but not get off into setup files and
>the like..

i agree about initialization files.  but it sure would be nice if
xboard/winboard had some sort of generic engine parameter property
sheet mechanism, similar to what uci can support.

 - edward



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