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Subject: Re: Problems Getting Fritz to work with Winboard on ICC

Author: Jerry Winters

Date: 09:04:47 06/15/03

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On June 15, 2003 at 07:58:20, Jay Urbanski wrote:

>On June 15, 2003 at 03:39:24, Jerry Winters wrote:
>
>>Hi
>>
>>  I am trying to  run Junior 8 on ICC though the Fritz8 GUI, I followed the
>>instructions to the T from this site  http://strops.sense.net/egan/index.htm
>>
>>Unfortunately when I get to the step that starts up winboard, I keep getting an
>>error box which pops up saying init named pipe "can't find slave, winboard23d
>>terminated unexpectdly".    I copied pasted the shortcuts straight from the web
>>page and changed the drive letters to match my own, so I don't see why this
>>isn't working for me any suggestions?
>
>What version of the Fritz GUI are you using?  Winboard232d is starting correctly
>but can't finda named pipe slave to connect to.  That means somehow you're not
>putting Fritz into a named pipe slave mode when you go to connect hardware.
>Make sure you check "Server name" and leave a dot . as the server name when you
>go to connect hardware.



  I'm using Fritz 8 GUI, but have never installed the update, so i am not sure
that this may be the problem, do you know where i get the Update? I didn't see
it at the chessbase site.



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