Author: Pete Galati
Date: 23:25:14 06/06/01
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On June 06, 2001 at 21:26:25, Pete Galati wrote: >On June 06, 2001 at 11:21:07, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On June 06, 2001 at 05:23:28, Pete Galati wrote: >> >>>On June 06, 2001 at 04:05:57, Mogens Larsen wrote: >>> >>>>On June 06, 2001 at 02:21:28, Baldomero Garcia, Jr. wrote: >>>> >>>>>True. But that's just running Crafty by itself. I'd like to be able to run >>>>>winboard and crafty at the same time and have the crafty console also. >>>> >>>>Why? If it's because you want to check what Crafty is thinking just enable log. >>>> >>>>I don't know if it's possible to add a command to the Crafty.rc file in order to >>>>enable console view. Did you check documentation? >>>> >>>>Mogens. >>> >>>Well, it would be cool if you could do that. That's something I tried to dig >>>around and find a way to do, sometime in the past. But I don't think you'd see >>>the searches in Crafty while it was comunicating with Winboard. They'd show up >>>in the logs, but I don't think you'd see them in Crafty's Dos box. >>> >>>Pete >> >> >>What I do is to open _another_ window, cd to the crafty directory, then >>(in unix) type "tail -f log.nnn". The -f says "poll the size of the file >>every second or so and if it is now longer, copy the new lines to the window >>I am in... it lets you see the log file dynamically as it is written to, which >>looks just like a normal console window running crafty. > >Cool, thanks. I'll look around to see if I can find a Dos equivelent of tail... >...ok, I had a copy of that on a GNU CD. > >No luck so far > >C:\CRAFTY>tail -f log.002 >c:/crafty/tail.exe: log.002: Permission denied (EACCES) > >C:\CRAFTY> > >Tried it in the Windows directory first because I figured that would be in the >path, that didn't work, so I moved it to Crafty's directory, but no luck. > >I'll have to take a close look, Windows might be locking me out, or the command >line parameters might be different for the GNU Dos version. > >Pete Ok, there is a newer version that you can find at Simtel, tail10.zip, and that one WILL work with Crafty's logs. It's ammusing, but I don't find it very usefull, the Linux version is probably better. Pete
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