Author: Stuart Cracraft
Date: 20:36:32 05/10/98
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On May 10, 1998 at 09:42:31, Dan Homan wrote: >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. > Okay -- at this point, I'm willing to change compilers to get it working. I've got winboard working with gnuchess/crafty on a PC/Windows95 to connect to ics.onenet.net and play a game. When I substitute k2.exe (my program's name) for gnuchesx.exe below, winboard never lets me play with it: winboard -fcp gnuchesx.exe I do Control-Alt-Del in a window and normally gnuchesx would be running, but if I started the line with k2.exe instead, I don't see k2.exe running. Yet, when I ran k2.exe by hand in a DOS shell, it gives exactly the same output as gnuchesx.exe: >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!).
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