Author: Stuart Cracraft
Date: 10:31:48 05/10/98
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On May 09, 1998 at 22:18:34, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. >> >>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 > > >why not dual-boot your machine using lilo, and install linux, assuming >you have a spare 500mb or so. then use linux to run using xboard, and >mount the win95 filesystem under linux, copy the log files to that file >system, then shutdown and reboot in win95 as needed. > >I run both here with the default on my home machine "boot win95" but I >can boot linux easily when I want... > >and it solves *all* the problems you are having... Yeah, I thought of that... I have a spare gig. The thought of all the extra tasks needed filled me with ennui though... May have to do it.
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