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

Author: Ernest Bonnem

Date: 04:00:25 01/13/06

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On January 13, 2006 at 03:34:19, Günther Simon wrote:

>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 BTW your WB version is outdated since at least 3 years ;)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

I know, Günther, but my question is : is there a workaround to make it work?
(Polyglot 1.3 is necessary in order to use books)



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