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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