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Subject: Re: Ruffian is here - Make your move Bob Hyatt!

Author: Steffen Jakob

Date: 20:39:53 09/23/02

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On September 23, 2002 at 14:21:49, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On September 23, 2002 at 12:07:35, Steffen Jakob wrote:
>
>>On September 23, 2002 at 11:29:30, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On September 23, 2002 at 08:26:30, Steffen Jakob wrote:
>>>
>>>>On September 23, 2002 at 08:20:06, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On September 23, 2002 at 08:11:09, Steffen Jakob wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Besides that I - same as Uli - don't have enough fantasy to think of a
>>>>>>way of how this could be done.
>>>>>
>>>>>your fantasy is limited ??
>>>>
>>>>Hi Thorsten,
>>>>
>>>>if yours isn't then please tell me a way how to take an existing engine which
>>>>must be a commercial one if the posted results are true and wrap it into
>>>>something which ruffian provides.
>>>
>>>
>>>This has already been done.  Take a hex editor.  Edit the executable.  Change
>>>strings to anything you want.  Different commands.  Different filenames.
>>>Different greeting.  Different everything except for executable code.  No idea
>>>if this was or was not done.  But it has been done in the past...
>>
>>I said "into something which ruffian provides.": UCI engine, Winboard engine,
>>and support of different Unix platforms (I have no reasons to assume that those
>>will not be available soon, as it was posted here).
>>
>>It will be interesting to do this with a hex editor :)
>>
>>Greetings,
>>Steffen.
>
>
>Commercial engines and amateur engines already support winboard and UCI.  So
>just changing the output strings to disguise it would be enough.

Please don't ignore the Unix argument!

Greetings,
Steffen.



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