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Subject: Re: ICC Finger notes question

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 21:11:34 01/29/05

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On January 29, 2005 at 23:10:09, Anthony Cozzie wrote:

>Since I live in the wonderful world of unix, I have created two scripts to play
>on ICC: zicclaunch and ziccstandalone.  One connects me to ICC; the other
>connects me to ICC, sets Xboard to issue a seek as soon as the first game ends,
>and looks for a game immediately.
>
>I would like to add a line to my finger notes so that people know when I am
>likely to be present or not.  This line would be set to something like
>"Standalone mode - Operator is probably not there" or nothing at all.  The
>question is: how do I zero a line?
>
>For example, suppose I try the standard "set 7".  That will zero the line if it
>was previously in standalone mode, but it will create an empty fingernote if it
>was in manual mode before.  I've played around with it a bit, and I'm starting
>to think that there is no sequence that will work.  Of course, I would be happy
>to be proved wrong if anyone has tried something like this before.
>
>anthony

I do the following:

I set up a login script that has my username/password, my aliases to seek games,
the actual seeks themselves, then I add my finger notes. So the format would
look like this:

Peter (username)
Skinner (password)
+alias ga1 multi seek 3 1 r f m; seek 5 3 r f m; seek 15 3 r f m; rematch
+alias ga2 say Thanks for the game!
+alias ga3 say Are you sure you didn't think you were playing checkers?
seek 3 1 r f m
seek 5 3 r f m
seek 15 3 r f m
set 1 Peter Robot v.10
set 2 PIV 2.0Ghz - 512mb ram - Cronix Alpha Beta Newbie Blend Gold Edition
set 3 Bill Gates is a midget

Then I just add the file name to the -icslogon icc2.txt at the end of my
commandline. All the above commands are executed as soon as I login, so I can
walk away and look at the games in the morning.

I do the exact same thing under Windows as I would under Linux.

Peter



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