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Subject: Re: Winboard with Polyglot13/latest Cygwin1 incompatible with Win98/Win9

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 00:34:19 01/13/06

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On January 12, 2006 at 15:27:36, Ernest Bonnem wrote:

>Works fine with WinXP,
>but with Win98 or Win98SE I immediately get, after the launch of Winboard, two
>error windows:
>Fatal error: Error writing to first chess program: the communication channel has
>been closed
>Fatal error: Error: first chess program (Polyglot rybka.ini) exited unexpectedly
>
>Is this a well known incompatibility?
>
>My Winboard is version 4.2.6
>Cygwin1.dll is the latest one (June 3, 2005), compatble with Polyglot 1.3
>Polyglot 1.3 is necessary if you want to use books

Has nothing to do with WB itself. You use different older cygwin.dlls
in other places. BTW your WB version is outdated since at least 3 years ;)

Guenther

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