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Subject: Re: ICC with arena and winboard

Author: Richard Pijl

Date: 06:55:53 10/28/03

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On October 27, 2003 at 16:48:37, martin fierz wrote:

>next, i added winboard support to my engine and now i'm playing without problems
>under winboard. one annoying thing is that my engine gets kicked out of ICC
>after 60 minutes of idleness, which happens rather frequently. has anybody
>compiled himself a version of winboard which sends an arbitrary command to ICC
>(like "finger") every 50 minutes or so? or is there another solution to this?

I just sent you a little script that handles this problem. The idea is to start
winboard from a batch file, when winboard terminates (e.g. autologout) the batch
file will start winboard again. This also helps with lost connections ...

bye,
Richard.



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