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Subject: Re: auto232

Author: Peter Herttrich

Date: 04:13:57 09/10/98

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On September 09, 1998 at 18:03:48, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:

>	It seems that now it is arising a debate about the importance of auto232
>support among chess engines, in part due to the decision of Ed Schroeder of
>removing it from Rebel.
>	Not so long ago, I asked where auto232 was documented, and Mr. Torsten Schoop
>was kind enough to send me his sources of auto232.
>	I have been studying them, and I have some questions:
>What are the requirements of auto232?
>Does it need a PC?
>Does it require windows 95/98/NT?
>	I ask these questions because I do not use PC's (in fact only recently I have
>realized how vast the PC world is), and I am planning to write a chess engine,
>mainly for Sun SparcStations running under Solaris (it is difficult for me to
>support other platforms, as I have no access to them). I think I can switch to a
>PC running under Solaris too, but moving to Windows only to write a chess engine

Use Linux, and you have the best operating system on the pc.
and if u work like Bob, the code can be compiled also on solaris.
I really would like to see one more chessprogram on UNIX/Linux !
Also take a look at xboard, then u only have to work at in the
engine.

Peter


>would be too much.



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