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Subject: Re: Ed's Programmer Stuff

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 23:42:32 02/07/03

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On February 08, 2003 at 02:39:17, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>On February 08, 2003 at 01:51:42, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>On February 07, 2003 at 13:11:19, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>>On February 07, 2003 at 09:11:12, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>>[snip]
>>>>I'm still a big fan of the old Rebel-Decade release; I keep on using this
>>>>program as a sparring partner for comet. It plays quite attractive chess and in
>>>>addtion has got an interesting book.
>>>>The GUI is nice, and the program runs smoothly under windows. I can't really
>>>>understand why a windows-GUI should be a "must".
>>>
>>>Wish more would agree with you :)
>>
>>How about a version that understands Winboard commands?  That would be the best
>>of all worlds.
>
>Do you mean a DOS program which understands winboard commands, Dann ?
>
>I doubt that's really useful, because you need these special pipe-functions from
>the win-library in order to poll correctly for input while pondering. I'm afraid
>that a DOS engine would sooner or later "hang", just waiting for input. A long
>time ago I had tried this.

Just a DOS application is not what I am hoping for.  Rather a console
application that runs under Win32.  That might be a lot more doable than a full
blown Windows port.  I suspect that Ed has most of the work already done, since
he was working on a Windows version.



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