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Subject: Re: handling ICC timeout

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 13:40:35 04/16/01

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On April 16, 2001 at 15:11:54, Jon Dart wrote:

>chessclub.com (ICC) drops a connection after 60 minutes of inactivity. It's not
>uncommon for my program to go 60 minutes without a match and it will then go
>offline. Does anyone have a way of getting around this? (I can think of several,
>from running an "at" script to modifying xboard, but I'm wondering if this
>problem has been solved before). I mostly run on Linux these days but would be
>interested in a solution that worked on Windows as well.
>
>B.t.w. freechess.org (FICS) doesn't have the 60 minute limit.
>
>--Jon

I am amazed ; I assumed you have a free computer account for Arasan on ICC ( as
you have the probably payed jdart account ) .

If that is the case just set noautologout=1 for your Arasan handle . This has to
be set at every login session and will solve the problem completely.

Greetings.

pete



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