Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:26:48 06/20/04
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On June 20, 2004 at 10:19:38, Peter Skinner wrote: >On June 20, 2004 at 00:00:17, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>First, for God's sake, don't name the file "ruffian.bat". :) >> >>Second, -queen looks wrong. The program should get to choose the promotion >>piece. >> >>Finally, to run that you need to type "./ruffian.bat" >> >>if you are using a C-shell, type "which xboard" to see if it is finding xboard >>and that it is getting the right one... > >Hi Robert, > >This is my current commandline to connect Ruffian to ICC (And Crafty to FICS, >but of course changed to suit FICS). Everything starts just fine now, and plays. >The problem is I am getting "broken pipe" errors all the time.(I get this error >with both Ruffian and Crafty on FICS). Should I be using -reuse in the >commandline? "broken pipe" means that one of the programs died. But, unfortunately, it is not clear which. IE you have xboard talking to a chess engine and to timestamp or timeseal, and either of those two crashing will produce that error... > >xboard -zp -ics -icshost 65.245.208.34 -icsport 5000 -telnet -telnetProgram >timestamp -fd /home/somnus/ruffian210 -fcp ./ruffian -xrm '*zippyGameEnd: ga1 >\nga2\nga3\n' -size Slim -autoflag -autoraise -ponder -autoflip -thinking >-icslogon ruff.txt here is mine: xboard -xexit -popupExitMessage false -icshelper /usr/local/bin/timestamp -xanimate -geometry +0+0 -ics -zp -autoflag -icshost 65.245.208.34 -fcp "crafty" -size petite -initString "" -xreuse > >And it is no longer called ruffian.bat :) Although I still used ruff.txt for the >login information :) > >Peter
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