Author: James Swafford
Date: 14:31:20 04/16/01
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On April 16, 2001 at 15:11:54, Jon Dart wrote: Sorry about the previous post (without text). :-) I usually run Winboard from an NT system these days. I just wrote a little batch file with a loop, so that when ICC times me out, I just log right back in (and issue a challenge). I've been thinking about a good way to implement an "idle timer" of some sort in my code to cut back on timeouts. Something like: :_loop winboard /fcp bla bla bla goto loop I may have messed the syntax up, but you get the point. -- James >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
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