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Subject: Re: xboard won't start (Solaris 8 for intel)

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 10:51:57 09/26/02

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On September 26, 2002 at 12:55:41, Ken Laird wrote:

>On September 26, 2002 at 09:09:15, Andrew Williams wrote:
>
>>On September 26, 2002 at 08:41:48, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:
>>
>>>Or even better, use
>>>xboard -ncp
>>>to run xboard without a chess engine.
>>>José.
>>
>>Errr... I think I said that!
>>
>>
>>Andrew
>
>xboard -ncp works.
>I installed gnuchess too.Now xboard and gnuchess are in the same directory.
>xboard still asks for gnuchessx.What is gnuchessx?

gnuchessx is a chess program. When I run my chess program, I have xboard
somewhere in my path, but my program is in the *current* directory.

>I would like to use xboard to play games on fics or between engines.
>Would like to use it like winboard.
>

This is my shell script for connecting to fics (this is for a human to play, not
a program):

#!/usr/bin/csh

xboard -size Small -ics -icshost 64.71.131.140 -icsinput \
-animateMoving False -ncp -sgf fics.pgn -colorizeMessages True \
-autoflag -moves -showCoords True -icshelper timeseal \
-popupExitMessage False


You will need to download timeseal, but I'm afraid I can't remember where it is.
Try searching on google. If you can't find it, or you don't want to use it, try
the above script without the "-icshelper timeseal" bit.


Andrew



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