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Subject: Re: Mini ICS for running matches

Author: Ulrich Tuerke

Date: 05:43:35 11/04/03

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On November 04, 2003 at 08:21:15, Matthew Hull wrote:

>On November 04, 2003 at 08:04:37, Francesco Di Tolla wrote:
>
>>Hi guys,
>>
>>since the new generation of computers tend to suppress com ports (many laptop
>>already don't have any, while some desktop lack), I was looking forward for a
>>way to test engines on two machines with no com port connection.
>>
>>I was thinking of using a minimal ICS server on one of the two PC's as mediator.
>>Does anybody know if such thing exists? I mean an ICS-like implementation with a
>>minimal support of instructions to enable just a game at a time.
>>regards
>>Franz
>
>I do engine matches over a network with xboard.  At the end of a match, it
>outputs a file with the match results.  I'm sure you can do the same with
>Windboard.

I doubt that it's as easy as under Unix, because iirc you need the remote shell
to do this. Usually Win-32 systems don't support this by default.

Btw, the auto232 of many commercial guys supports auto-play via network.
However, you need NT compatible systems to do this. Win-95 or Win-98 won't work.

Uli

>
>Matt



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