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

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 14:01:15 04/04/02

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On April 04, 2002 at 16:04:11, Roy Eassa wrote:

>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).


Wait ... wait ... I am beginning to see the light!

Let's get RID of steering wheels for cars.  Cars should be steered by a command
line interface!  Of course, why didn't I see it before!

automobile.com -buick -steer -right -degrees -80

And televisions too ... you change the channel by typing:

television.exe -living room -channel -change 003

That's so much better than pressing a button or two!

And if you have an itch to scratch, don't reach up and scratch it.  Just type:

c:\program files\human body\me.exe -skin -scratch d:\my itches\forehead.txt

(Of course you have already saved details about the itch in a text file called
forehead.txt.)



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