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Subject: Re: Winboard Feature Request

Author: José Carlos

Date: 16:37:54 12/10/00

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On December 10, 2000 at 11:24:29, Roger D Davis wrote:

>I would like to request a Winboard feature. Maybe Tim Mann would be the proper
>person to implement this, but then again, maybe someone else can do it.
>
>I run a chess program on ICC (not my own)...the program plays while I do other
>things on my computer. I let it run all night. Every so often, something goes
>wrong, and the connection to ICC is closed. I have a cable modem, so it's
>"always on."
>
>I would like a feature that checks to see if the connection to ICC is open, and
>if it isn't, tries to reconnect every few minutes or so, and keeps trying until
>it does. Right now, Winboard puts up a dialog box to announce the connection has
>been closed, and that's it.
>
>This would, potentially, mean many more games on ICC for all programs, since I
>would not have to come back to the machine to check if Winboard is communicating
>with ICC. :)
>
>Roger

  That'd be cool, but I'll have to check if the program "notices" the connection
is lost, and see if I have to implement anything in my program for this
automated reconnection.
  Thanks Raj for running Averno on ICC full time. It's a _great_ help for me.

  José C.

Statistics for AvernoX(C)         On for: 1:16     Idle:    0
    AvernoX is currently involved in a match against blunite.

              rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
    Bullet      2376        829    84    59   972   2435 (09-Dec-2000)
    Blitz       2391       1135   151    78  1364   2497 (07-Dec-2000)
    Standard    2313        365    54    15   434   2376 (09-Dec-2000)

     1: Latest version (participated in CCT2) of Averno by José Carlos Martinez
      Galán of Spain
     2: The Author is my Buddy!
     3: Athlon 800 with 384 megs Ram and Win98SE
     4: Most of the time, this program runs unattended.
     5: Play as many games as you want.
     6: ICS Handle Rdavis101; If problems occur, email me at Rdavis101@aol.com
     7: I use this computer while Averno plays, so it's strength may be
variable.
     8: You can download Averno at
http://www.geocities.com/josec_averno/Averno.ht
      ml
     9: But you can only play rated games against it here. :)




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