Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 21:17:13 10/24/02
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On October 24, 2002 at 23:48:29, Mike S. wrote:
>On October 24, 2002 at 22:46:04, Bob Durrett wrote:
>
>>(...)
>>I couldn't find the winboard.ini file using
>>Find File. I'm not sure what to try next. does the winboard.ini file go by a
>>different name? Do I have to do something special to download that .ini file
>>from Tim Mann's site? Or what???
>
>Simply start winboard.exe (you can choose "Just view or edit game files" for
>this first try in the startup dialogue which will appear). WinBoard will then
>create the file winboard.ini, with default option settings, in the same
>directory.
>
>While other GUIs may have even (much) more features, WinBoard probably is still
>the best choice for matches between WB.-engines. I also use it for test suites
>(manually; results can most often be read/verified from log files afterwards).
>
>HTH,
>M.Scheidl
>
>P.S. Here an example, from the *end* of my winboard.ini. Note that you have to
>repeat the configuration line a 2nd time with /sd=... (not /fd=...) under
>/secondChessProgramNames, which is a mistake I made often when copying the line.
>Also, xreuse becomes xreuse2 in that part. The rest is really simple I think,
>name in "" and the path to the engines directory, basically.:
>
>/firstChessProgramNames={
>"GNUChes5 xboard"
>"Delfi" /fd=c:\Schach\Winboard\Delfi3
>"wcrafty-1815 xboard" /fd=c:\Schach\Winboard\Crafty
>"Crafty1814dc xboard" /fd=c:\Schach\Winboard\Crafty
>"wcrafty_1801 xboard" /fd=c:\Schach\Winboard\Crafty
>"Yace_Berlin" /fd=c:\Schach\Winboard\Yace
>"LG2000V35" /fd=c:\Schach\Winboard\LG2000V35 /xreuse
>"Gromit382 gromit.cui" /fd=c:\Schach\Winboard\Gromit382
>"WBNimzo2000b" /fd=c:\Schach\Winboard\wbnimzob
>"mad" /fd=c:\Schach\Winboard\MAD006 /xreuse
>}
>/secondChessProgramNames={
>"GNUChes5 xboard"
>"Delfi" /sd=c:\Schach\Winboard\Delfi3
>"wcrafty-1815 xboard" /sd=c:\Schach\Winboard\Crafty
>"Crafty1814dc xboard" /sd=c:\Schach\Winboard\Crafty
>"wcrafty_1801 xboard" /sd=c:\Schach\Winboard\Crafty
>"Yace_Berlin" /sd=c:\Schach\Winboard\Yace
>"LG2000V35" /sd=c:\Schach\Winboard\LG2000V35 /xreuse2
>"Gromit382 gromit.cui" /sd=c:\Schach\Winboard\Gromit382
>"WBNimzo2000b" /sd=c:\Schach\Winboard\wbnimzob
>"mad" /sd=c:\Schach\Winboard\MAD006 /xreuse2
>}
>/showButtonBar=false
It seems odd that the Ruffian Read Me file uses the quotation marks differently.
They give:
...
/firstChessProgramNames={GNUChess
"GNUChes5 xboard"
Ruffian /fd="C:\Program Files\Winboard\ruffian"
}
...
This has the quotation marks on the path and not on Ruffian.
I know nothing about syntax for *.ini files, although I could look it up in one
of my Windows 98 reference books, I suppose.
Do you see any problem with doing it the way that is shown above?
Bob D.
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