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

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 05:05:12 01/13/06

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On January 13, 2006 at 07:00:25, Ernest Bonnem wrote:

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 BTW your WB version is outdated since at least 3 years ;)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

You missunderstood me obviously ;) Just replace the older ones you have
probably in the WB main folder and those you have perhaps in your OS or
OS/system(32) folder and all should work fine.

Guenther



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