Author: Frank Phillips
Date: 09:49:31 10/28/03
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On October 28, 2003 at 10:49:18, martin fierz wrote: >On October 28, 2003 at 09:55:53, Richard Pijl wrote: > >>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. > >thanks for the script. it seems that the noautologout has solved my problem >already though :-) >but i have another question about the script: my winboard usually gives me a >dialog box "connection by ICS closed" with an OK button to click. only when i OK >this winboard closes; so that kind of script wouldn't restart winboard?! > >cheers > martin For xboard (Linux) I have -xexit -popupExitMessage false \ in the script file that connects to ICC. RTFM :-) Frank
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