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Subject: Re: ERT Beta 3 and feedback wanted

Author: Lex Loep

Date: 23:17:43 01/02/01

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On January 02, 2001 at 18:18:59, Peter Fendrich wrote:

>On January 01, 2001 at 14:33:30, Lex Loep wrote:
>
>>On January 01, 2001 at 10:47:44, Peter Fendrich wrote:
>>
>>>On January 01, 2001 at 10:18:05, Lex Loep wrote:
>
>-- snip --
>>>If I understand this right, wouldn't it be better to send the remaining time
>>>(time and otim in the winboard protocol) to the programs?
>>>
>>
>>That would be better but I wanted to keep the interface to the engines as >simple
>>as possible. The native engines and most winboard engines support this, but >then
>>what would happen if you use auto232, then there are no such command.
>  That's a problem that auto232 already has.
>  It's cleanly solvable for WB why not take that and just ignore this for
>  auto232? I have a feeling that auto232 will not survive very long anyway.
>

I will see.

>>>For the moment I will take a break in further development, still I think it has
>>>turned into a usefull tool.
>>>
>>>I would like to get some feedback on the following:
>>>
>>>- What features would you like to see ?
>>>- Are there essential things missing ?
>>>- Would you like to see auto232 support added ?
>>
>>   Maybe some of the wb-232 translators will do?
>>
>>>
>>
>>Could be. Can somebody test this ?
>
>I tried to add winboard232b.exe as an engine but during the Add process it
>made my system (win2000) to crash completely. I had to reboot each time.
>I couldn't figure out what was happening. Something is done when the program is
>loaded. That's for sure!
>There are other wb-aut232 programs but I don't know where they are.
>//Peter

I saw there where some incompatabilities between w2k and winboard232b.exe.
Thanks for trying.

Lex




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