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Subject: Re: xboard and WinBoard 4.2.4 released

Author: Bernhard Bauer

Date: 05:47:49 12/10/01

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On December 10, 2001 at 03:11:55, Tim Mann wrote:

>** Announcing the release of XBoard and WinBoard, version 4.2.4 **
>
>A new release of both XBoard and WinBoard is now available.  Version
>4.2.4 is strictly a bugfix release.  It corrects about 30 bugs in the
>4.2.3 release, upgrades the included copy of GNU Chess 5 from 5.00 to
>5.02, and adds a couple of very minor features.  See the ChangeLog
>included with the release for details.
>
>Several new features contributed by various people are still in the
>pipeline for a future release, as are several additions to the engine
>communication protocol that have been discussed on the chess-engines
>mailing list but which I have not implemented yet.  I wanted to work
>through my large backlog of small bug reports and fixes before moving
>on to these larger items.
>
>You can get both programs from my Chess page on the World Wide Web.
>In addition, they should soon be available from GNU FTP sites.
>
>- http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html
>- ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/
>- ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/winboard/
>
>XBoard is a graphical chessboard for the X Window System that can
>serve as a user interface for GNU Chess, Crafty, and other chess
>engines, for the Internet Chess Servers, and for electronic mail
>correspondence chess.  XBoard can also be used by itself.  It can read
>and write game files in PGN (portable game notation).
>
>WinBoard is a similar program for 32-bit Microsoft Windows.  It
>includes all the major features of XBoard except email correspondence
>chess.
>
>Some known bugs and deficiencies in previous versions have not been
>addressed.  It is not necessary to report your favorite bug again if
>you have reported it before, unless the ChangeLog erroneously says it
>has been fixed.  Most known bugs, deficiencies, and suggestions
>received are now listed in the ToDo file.  If you find a bug not
>listed there, please report it to me.
>
>        --Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>

Up to now it doesn't work.
4.2.4 is not on gnu site, neither on yours.
regards
Bernhard



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