Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 09:11:02 03/27/01
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On March 27, 2001 at 11:12:13, James T. Walker wrote: >On March 27, 2001 at 10:52:43, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>On March 27, 2001 at 10:34:29, James T. Walker wrote: >> >>>As a non-programmer I have to say this is one of the silliest threads I have >>>ever read. It brings up a few questions to programmers. >>> >>>1. Why would you let another program decide for you when/how to save a game or >>>any other info you think is important?? >>>2. Does being desiginated as "Slave" prohibit you from saving information when >>>terminating/starting a game?? >>> >>>I notice when playing two chessbase programs vs each other in auto232 mode they >>>both save the game WITHOUT the box being checked. This seems reasonable to me. >>>Where's the beef? >>>Jim >> >>Being the "slave" you are dependant from the commands send by the "master". >> >>This includes the "save game", "new game" and "force move" commands. >> >>The option "save opponent game" is there because the "save game" may cause >>troubles on the remote program. If it does you turn it off. >> >>Ed > >Hello Ed, >As you know I'm not a programmer and know nothing about it but what do you mean >by "dependant"?? Sure you need to be told "lets start a new game/It's your >move" but seems to me letting your opponent control if you save info or not is >crazy. How can the "master" stop you from saving info before starting a new >game? >Jim "Dependant" is the key-word of the auto232 protocol. The slave in principle has nothing to do and the master is in full control sending commands (mainly moves) to the slave. That's why the expression master-slave is a good chosen one. Of course you can add your own stuff such as controlling "save game" yourself for instance when the slave retrieves the "new game" command from the master you could decide to do a "save game" being the slave. However if the "save opponent game" box is checked on the remote PC the game is saved twice which isn't desirable also. Ed
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