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Subject: shelling engines on remote systems with winboard

Author: James Swafford

Date: 15:13:03 05/15/01


Cross posted from the Winboard forum:

I need some help shelling an engine on a remote computer.

I have two machines; one runs Linux, the other Windows.
There is a chess engine on the Linux machine that I'd like to shell
off and interface with Winboard on the Windows machine.

Here's the startup batch file I'm using:

cd \progra~1\winboard
winboard /fh="www" /fd="h:\prophet\current" /fcp="./prophet ics"

Note the hostname of the Linux machine is 'www'. I am running Samba,
hence the mapped drive letter "h" to the directory the engine lives in.
When I execute the batch file, I get a "error reading from first chess
program" error. Same deal if I use /fd="/home/james/prophet/current/",
and if I remove the './' from the engine command.

I've read through the Winboard documentation without any luck.

Help greatly appreciated!

--
James







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