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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:48:53 09/24/02

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On September 23, 2002 at 23:39:53, Steffen Jakob wrote:

>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.


I haven't even _seen_ the unix argument.  IE no unix/linux executable yet,
so there isn't anything to discuss (yet).



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