Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 05:23:31 05/14/98
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On May 13, 1998 at 23:29:06, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On May 13, 1998 at 18:57:39, Terry Presgrove wrote: > >> So why hasn't an interface been created to run Rebel9 like for Gnu >> chess or Crafty? I think it would be well received. > >It was possible to create an interface for gnuchess because gnuchess is >a command-line program. XBoard/WinBoard just redirects input and >output. > >The stuff that XBoard/WinBoard expects to see is documented, so other >programs can send the same stuff to stdout, and expect to read the same >stuff from stdin, and work file. > >The commercial programs aren't command-line programs, they use graphical >interfaces, so this method won't work. > >In order to automate them, someone would have to figure out how to dummy >up the Donninger autoplayer somehow, but I doulbt it would work very >well even if someone could do it. > >It's up to the program authors to automate their programs. > >I've been advocating this for a long time. Some of them do it, and some >of them don't, for whatever reason. > >A big reason given is that European phone rates are very high, even for >local calls, so being on the net is expensive for these guys. They >aren't as net-crazy as some of the rest of us are. > >bruce around 3 dollar an hour day time. Local phone call during night time 0.75 dollar an hour. a dollar for you is 2 dollar for us. Europeans earn generally less, because of taxes and because of high gasolin prices (2,09 a litre that's 1 dollar a litre, so something like 4 dollar for your bottlesizes). So in fact it's 2 times more than you think it is, all other things are relatively more expensive. Therefore i directly after this disconnect. This is way i dislike CCC. internet explorer is slowly loading msg's. replying realtime like i do takes time. I miss bunches of msg's im afraid if you like answer email me privately then i know i need to answer to what threat.
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