Author: Danniel Corbit
Date: 13:01:16 09/10/98
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On September 10, 1998 at 13:11:24, Robert Hyatt wrote: [snip] >I agree totally. the Auto232 standard is gross. Completely gross. There are >many better ways to accomplish this task. First problem is that the message >format is rediculous, with the original auto232 interface not supporting *real* >chess since it didn't allow underpromotion. Then there were the timing issues >that resulted in hangs when a program moved too quickly. Cryptic move format >requiring a tab here, no tab there, etc... > >None of it made any sense from a software engineering point of view. I would >be more than happy to sit down with a group and work out a standard >communication interface that is easy to implement, easy to parse, and easy to >understand how it is supposed to work. > >We ought to be able to also provide some basic software that will let this work >on both unix and windows boxes (IE I can do the unix part myself, and we can >take that to make a "auto232" library that anyone using unix can call). I have >been trying to study the windows auto232 interface, but it is a nightmare, >still, because it uses the old auto232 message format with two levels of parsing >(which makes little sense). IE I send a somewhat cryptic message to the driver >(cryptic because of a byzantine format) that the driver then modifies and sends >to the other driver over the interface, which has to modify that to send it to >the engine, which has to modify that to interpret what the devil it means. > >That is not necessary. And there is *no* sense in thinking "windoze" only for >this interface, because it can work linux to windows, and linux to linux, as >well as windows to windows, if done correctly. > >Anyone interested? Shareware/Freeware guys want to take the lead here and do >this right, once and for all? I would suggest using ACE for communication, since it supports many protocols and runs on dozens of UNIX flavors and WinNT, and MVS and... How about something even more advanced -- a tournament server!
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