Author: Frank Phillips
Date: 14:49:23 11/13/02
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On November 13, 2002 at 15:50:27, Andrew Williams wrote: >On November 13, 2002 at 13:01:57, Frank Phillips wrote: > >>On November 13, 2002 at 11:08:21, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On November 13, 2002 at 09:54:46, Ricardo R Santana wrote: >>> >>>>Hello All >>>> >> >>> >>>for a match, use xboard, -mm to enable match mode, -mg x to play x games in the >>>match, >>>then use the -fh and -sh to choose the "host computers" for the two crafty >>>executables. If >>>you omit -fh, then one will run on the machine you run xboard on... >> >> >>I have never gotten this to work with any program other than Crafty on the >>second machine eg Yace, Arasan, my own! The error seems to be associated with >>permissions on fh, but try as I may I have never solved it. >> >>The first fails after the first move .. Error writing to first chess program: >>Broken pipe.. (even if I pretend it is Crafty) >> >>The second works. >> >>Frank > >Hi Frank, > >I've had something like this working properly, but I'm afraid I can't find my >scripts. Over one summer, I played more than 1200 games this way. One thing I >remember is that I had both programs running in my home directory (ie >/home/andyw). For some reason, the one which was running remotely couldn't >change directory or something. This was all at my former employers' place. I'll >have a dig through some old CDs to see if I've got backups of the scripts >anywhere. > >Andrew Yes...the problem seems to be that the program running remotely does not obey the xboard directory path command. (In this case -fd /home/fp/chess). Thanks Frank
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