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Subject: Re: Writing for Winboard/Xboard and console

Author: Ralf Elvsén

Date: 11:38:17 04/08/02

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On April 08, 2002 at 12:01:07, Russell Reagan wrote:

>I'm curious if this will work for integrating winboard/xboard support for my
>console chess program. Rather than determining whether or not to send output
>based on whether the program is in winboard mode or console mode, could I simply
>write to standard error for console output and standard output for
>winboard/xboard output? If I recall correctly, winboard/xboard only reads from
>the program's standard output. Thanks.
>
>Russell

Xboard redirects stdout and stderr at startup so all output will go
to Xboard. As I didn't like that I located the relevant code and
commented out the stderr-thing, then recompiled Xboard.
Now I write debuginfo to stderr. Ugly but it works, I don't have to
care whether I run with Xboard or not.

Btw, I have several other Xboard-hacks: I interact with my
runtime-debugger via my own Xboard-menue, my engine can set the
position instead of being Xboards slave etc. All
very handy and time saving for debugging.

Ralf



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