Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 11:12:24 09/05/05
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On September 05, 2005 at 12:03:39, Andreas Guettinger wrote: >On September 05, 2005 at 10:04:21, Matthew Hull wrote: > >>Anyone know why xboard won't start a chess program in ICS mode under XDarwin. >> >>If I remove the ICS switches, it will start the program just fine. But if I add >>the ICS switches, it logs onto the chess server but won't start the chess >>program. Debug mode offers no clues. >> >>This same script works under Linux and Cygwin, but not XDarwin. > >Works fine here. You probably forgot the -zp (zippy) option or didn't compile in >zippy support, which is required to run a chess program to the chess server. > >So for compiling read zippy.README in the xboard package. > >To build the Zippy version of xboard, on most systems just do: > configure --enable-zippy > make That sounds like the probable cause. I'll make sure it's built with that. Thanks!! > >to start xboard I use: >xboard -zp -ics -fcp chessprogram -autoflag > >regards >Andy
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