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Subject: Re: XBoard and remote engine via SSH

Author: James Swafford

Date: 19:45:26 02/16/06

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On February 16, 2006 at 11:30:34, Andreas Guettinger wrote:

>On February 15, 2006 at 23:15:33, James Swafford wrote:
>
>>Does anyone have an example handy for launching XBoard with a remote
>>engine via ssh?  I've done it before using rsh, but it's been a while.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>--
>>James
>
>xboard -ruser username -rsh ssh -fh hostname -fcp 'wine rybka.exe' -sd
>/path/polyglot -scp 'polyglot hiarcs10.ini' -xponder -thinking -tc 60 -inc 10
>-xbuttons -mm -sgf match.pgn
>
>This should launch rybka on the host hostname and play it against Hiarcs using
>polylgot on the current host.
>
>remember to put the chess engines files in the user <username's> home directory
>on the host <hostname> because I think after the -fh or -sh settings you can't
>specify a path.


Thanks!  Now if I could just figure out why Xboard is throwing these
'first chess program exited unexpectedly' errors (these don't happen
normally).

--
James


>
>regards
>Andy



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