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 BTW your WB version is outdated since at least 3 years ;) 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