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Subject: Re: New version of EXchess released

Author: Dan Homan

Date: 07:59:44 04/09/98

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On April 09, 1998 at 02:37:04, Roland Pfister wrote:

>On April 08, 1998 at 23:15:10, Dan Homan wrote:
>
>...
>>
>>The opening book should be in the working directory to be accessed by
>>EXchess.  Either you need to run winboard from the directory where
>>EXchess and all its support files are located or you need to have copies
>>of those files in the Winboard directory.  (The search.par file should
>>also
>>be in the working directory to be accessed by EXchess.)
>>
>
>You should also look into the directory where your exe file stays.
>I have made a wrapper function around fopen that first tries the
>current directory and then tries the exe path. If I were ambitious
>I could even try all directories in the PATH environment variable.
>
>Roland

That is an excellent suggestion.  I hadn't thought of doing that.

 - Dan



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