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Subject: Re: XBoard / SSH woes

Author: James Swafford

Date: 05:32:41 02/22/06

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On February 21, 2006 at 23:58:38, Mark Boylan wrote:

>This may be a little off-topic, and really has nothing to do with resolving your
>problem, but I was just wondering...
>
>Has anyone ever tried creating a Linux/Unix user whose shell is a chess engine?
>Or configuring ssh to run a chess engine as the shell for a remote user? It
>seems like this might work, but I've never seen anyone mention it before.


That seems a little extreme. :)  I have heard of people using Perl(!) as
a shell, and I remember thinking that they must be gluttons for punishment.

--
James


>
> - mark



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