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Subject: Re: Mate in 9....?

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 13:04:11 04/04/02

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On April 04, 2002 at 15:45:30, James T. Walker wrote:

>On April 04, 2002 at 14:54:09, Heiner Marxen wrote:
>
>>On April 04, 2002 at 12:49:04, James T. Walker wrote:
>>
>>>How do I get a working version of Chest??
>>>Jim
>>
>>See  http://www.drb.insel.de/~heiner/Chess/chest.html
>>
>>I offer source, only (ANSI-C).
>>Dann Corbit also offers win-32 binaries (my page has a link).
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Heiner
>
>It seems like a nice program to have/use.  I just don't feel like taking a 3
>semester hour course in how to get it up and running.
>Jim


It looks like you have to take the EPD that's already in your Windows clipboard,
paste it into a text file, save the text file to disk, then run Chest from the
command line, giving it the path to the text file you just created/saved.

I think it would be good to be able to paste a single EPD right into the command
line as a parameter, but I don't see that that's an option.  Permitting this
would facilitate creating a GUI front end (which otherwise would have to use a
temporary file or something as a way to get the EPD into Chest).

I was a command line jockey in the '70s and '80s, but have given up my "memorize
and type" ways for "recognize and point" (i.e., GUI).



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