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Subject: Re: ICC Finger notes question

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 21:15:25 01/29/05

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On January 30, 2005 at 00:11:34, Peter Skinner wrote:

>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

Sorry I should have added that if you want to remove a line in one script, and
add it in another, just make two separate login files, and do the following:

set 6 I will own you, and your mom is a bucket of bolts.
set 7 Standalone mode - Operator is not around. Talk to the hand.

Then in the manual file:

set 6 I will own you, and your mom is a bucket of bolts.
set 7

That will clear the previous finger note, then when you login with the _other_
login file, the finger note will be added once again.



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