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Subject: Re: Winboard/Arena interfacing question

Author: Peter Fendrich

Date: 14:38:31 11/06/02

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On November 06, 2002 at 17:33:14, Russell Reagan wrote:

>When interfacing your engine with Winboard or Arena, is it safe to output errors
>or debug info to standard error? As I understand it, Winboard and Arena read
>from what you send to standard out, so you should be able to send whatever you
>want to standard error without it ever causing a problem, right? This isn't a
>big deal. I just need to know whether to add in extra code to output certain
>things conditionally based upon whether I'm in console mode or Winbaord/Arena
>mode.
>
>Russell

Why don't you prefix all such messages with # or something and let
Winboard/Arena take care of the output? One advantage is that you will se what
is sent and when from Winboards point of view.

Peter



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