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Subject: Re: xboard/Linux version of Comet B.46 available!

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 04:53:00 06/11/02

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On June 11, 2002 at 07:49:27, Andrew Williams wrote:

>On June 11, 2002 at 07:44:40, Steve Coladonato wrote:
>
>>On June 11, 2002 at 04:50:38, Alastair Scott wrote:
>>
>>>On June 10, 2002 at 19:16:08, Steve Coladonato wrote:
>>>
>>>>On June 10, 2002 at 12:41:27, Leo Dijksman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>The Linux version of Comet can be downloaded at Frank's Chess Page:
>>>>>
>>>>>http://www.amateurschach.de/
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks to Uli!
>>>>>
>>>>>Leo.
>>>>
>>>>Is Comet B.46 compatible with SCID for doing analysis using the SCID analysis
>>>>window?
>>>>
>>>>Steve
>>>
>>>Difficult to tell until I do more testing.
>>>
>>>I note that, if you're playing through a game quickly (1 second per move or so)
>>>Comet sometimes doesn't keep pace and first gets out of sync with the position
>>>on the board then becomes completely confused, seemingly reverting to move 1.
>>>The cure is to close and reopen the analysis window.
>>>
>>>Alastair
>>
>>
>>I downloaded the zip file from Frank's site and unzipped it in a directory
>>called /usr/local/chess/Comet-B46.  The executable file from the zip is
>>COMET-XB.  I then tried to run it with xboard using "xboard -fcp COMET-XB -fd
>>/usr/local/chess/Comet-B46" and got the xboard error "Failed to start first
>>chess program COMET-XB..."  When I run COMET-XB standalone, it starts but I have
>>no idea what the commands to play a game are.
>>
>>Steve
>
>You need to make COMET-XB into an executable file. Type in:
>
>chmod +x COMET-XB
>
>at the shell prompt and then press enter. I'm sure that you'd be able to do this
>with one of the file managers instead if you prefer to. You only need to do it
>once, not every time you run comet.
>
>Andrew

Possible, but as he is able to start it as standalone I suspect xboard runs
under a different user on his computer. I'd suggest $ chmod 555 COMET-XB.

Peter



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