Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 05:52:30 09/22/03
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On September 22, 2003 at 07:43:03, Andy Prap wrote: >FIRST: For such an important utility (to load engines on winboard) there is a >poor interest so far. Is it strange? There are almost 200 engine authors and >thousands of users of such engines. > >SECOND: I am not a programmer, so I want to ask this: if one separates the >winboard.ini file in two files. One the 'winboard.ini' with all winboard >settings and the second e.g. an 'engine.ini' file with the relevant settings >(fd, sd, etc.), then it could be perhaps possible with a windows application >write-in the folder path of Winboard, the folder of the engine, the exact name >of the engine (as its exe file) and have the engine.ni file be edited >automatically, irrespectively of the drive/place where you or I keep the >winboard and the engine folders. This means that Winboard would need a small >modification to read the engine.ini file. Tim Mann's work is allready done here since you can put in a file as the list instead of listing it in the winboard.ini file itself. But for a istallation program it's just as easy to edit the winboard.ini file. Ex. winboard.ini entry: /firstChessProgramNames="@fcp.ini" fcp.ini file: GNUChess "GNUChes5 xboard" PolarEngine /fd c:\\Programfiler\\engines\\PolarChess What could have been wanted was som sort of aliasing so you got a nice list of names instead of 'program+parameter+directory', Maybe it's there allready, I don't use this approx. Instead I have shortcut to all engines in a folder, could just as well been in the start\program\winboard menu so an installer program could find it. Here I have startup of div. engines I like to play against and matches I want to test. Odd Gunnar > >THIRD: If there is a volunteer for the above work, then he can simply get in >contact with Dr. Tim Mann and do the rest with him. Why not? > >Regards
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