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Subject: Winboard vs. Xboard

Author: Dan Homan

Date: 16:56:15 04/26/98

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On April 26, 1998 at 17:54:24, Don Dailey wrote:

>
>I would like to set up a nice serial version for windows with a
>graphical interface if anyone shows any real interest.  Does anyone
>know what is involved with kludging Xboard (the windows version)
>to work?  I've done it on Unix but have no experience at all with
>Windows except for some minor system administration at the lab.
>Are there other user interfaces generally available (with protocol
>documentation?)
>

The winboard protocol is exactly like the xboard protocol.  The only
difference is polling for input.  You can't use select(); instead you
need
to use peeknamedpipe().  I wasn't familiar with windows programming
myself, so I just looked at the crafty code for polling for input
from Winboard.

 - Dan



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