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Subject: Re: handling ICC timeout

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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