Author: Terry Presgrove
Date: 06:29:24 05/14/98
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On May 14, 1998 at 08:23:31, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >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. If I'm understanding this correctly then the bottom line is there is not enough incentive for Rebel9 producers/programmers to create a workable interface to run on the ICC. thanks for the info.........Terry
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