Author: Dan Homan
Date: 06:42:31 05/10/98
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On May 09, 1998 at 20:48:54, Stuart Cracraft wrote: > >On May 09, 1998 at 15:36:09, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote: > > >>Robofics is a comandline interface only, while xboard/zippy requier >>displaying the board on a x-server. The way I interpeded the original >>poster, he wanted to start something at his ISP (most likely running >>some UNIX) and not stay connected, but rather have the program running >>after he logs out. You can't do that with zippy, can you? >> > >Here's what I need to do (and can't use Unix to do it for various >reasons): >have my PC during the day play unattended games between my chess >program and people on ICS. At night, come back and debug. Then >let it run again the next day. > >My environment: Windows 95, GNU C, PPP account on Internet >Service Provider. Winboard should work fine. I used winboard under essentially this configuration (I used GNU C++). But you will need to stay connected to your ISP while the program plays. A bonus of using Winboard is that the command interface with your program is essentially the same as for xboard and robofics, so converting to them if you decide to go to linux is pretty easy. - Dan P.S. GNU C (DJGPP version) creates DOS executables. For some reason Winboard can only communicate with them if you use the full (DOS) path name in the Winboard command line (even if the DOS executable is in the Winboard home directory!). > >That's the whole deal. I can't change any of my environment to suit the >end. > >Sounds like robofics is another Unix-only solution? > >--Stuart
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