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Subject: Re: A question in initializing engine in Gerbil?

Author: James Swafford

Date: 05:32:02 06/14/04

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On June 13, 2004 at 10:57:20, Gopikrishna wrote:

>Well under Engine.C and over to PconInitEngine().There's a hint saying
>// Process command line switches after setting appropriate defaults.
>Below we are checking if the contents of argv[] arguments are whether 'b','s'
>etc... But from where does the engine get these from? From Winboard? Because
>when I start the engine and in Dos Prompt these commands are not working,so my
>doubt is if they work only from winboard? Thanks.

COmmand line switches come from the command line.
Start the engine with something like:

gerbil bla1 bla2

from your DOS prompt.

--
James



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