Author: Rafael Villarroel
Date: 21:07:47 04/19/99
Since Winboard doesn't have built into itself the possibility of playing an engine tournament automatically, I wonder if somebody has been succesful in doing the same using batch files or some other utility. I haven't been able to do it myself. If a write just a series of commands in a batch file winboard <arguments> winboard <other arguments> winboard <etc...> I get several instances of winboard running simultaneously. If I put each command in a batch file, say 1.bat having winboard <arguments> as only line, 2.bat having winboard <other arguments> as only line, etc, then the batch, say main.bat, containing the lines call 1.bat call 2.bat call 3.bat seems to work at first, but when execution of the command of 1.bat is completed and the first instance of winboard closes, the DOS box doesn't recover focus automatically, and main.bat stops at the first line until I give focus to the DOS box again. Is there a way to execute this commands one after the other without intervention? I have seen some freeware scheduling utilities that could be useful, but one (Wincron) doesn't seem to allow to run a task immediately after closing the previous one, while another (Time Clock) allows one to do it, but doesn't read a text file as a task list. Thanks for any help Rafael Villarroel flores@math.umn.edu
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