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Subject: Re: Serial cable working, but what programs support Auto playing?

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 12:29:02 01/17/01

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On January 17, 2001 at 15:03:39, Torstein Hall wrote:

>On January 16, 2001 at 14:39:01, Manfred Rosenboom wrote:
>
>>On January 16, 2001 at 06:29:28, Aseldar Salautdinov wrote:
>>
>>>What is this? How can I use it with MS network?
>>
>>Pipe Servers are based on the so called "Named Pipes" functionallity, available
>>under Windows NT, Windows 2000 (and NOT Win95/98) and for (almost ?) all Unix
>>platforms.
>>
>>A named pipe is, in a way, similar to a file in writing data (data will be added
>>to the named pipe), but reading data will delete the data in the named pipe.
>>Under WinNT/2000 you can access named pipes in a Windows network (= share the
>>named pipe), and you can set permissions, like for regular files.
>>
>>Manfred
>
>So to play matches over the Lan, I need at least on PC with Win2K or NT? So on
>my homenetwork with Win ME I'm out of luck, trying to connect two Fritz engines
>over the Network!
>
>Torstein

I got it up and running with some old LapLink or modem cable or whatever it was.
So now its Fritz 6 on a AMD K6200MHz against F6 og PIII 700MHz. It feels pretty
stupid though, having a old serial cable running together with my Ethernet
cable! Anyway, what programs have Auto player support built in.

Torstein




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