Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:09:10 07/19/99
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On July 19, 1999 at 18:35:36, ERIQ wrote: >hi all, how do i get xboard to start automaticly with xboard instead of >gnuchess and also i've been having problems with crafty using it's book when >it is summoned like this "xboard -fcp crafty" it didn't use it's book . >but when "./crafty" it uses it's book, and finally it does not seem to work >at all if i am not logged in as root. please help if you can I like crafty's >play very much > >thx. > >sign, > Eriq 1. simplest way to make it work is to put crafty/book.bin/books.bin in the xboard directory. 2. needing root implies that your book files aren't set with write permissions which is necessary for book learning... Get the permissions right and this isn't needed (actually running as root is dangerous). If it isn't the permissions on the files, check the directory where logs go, it must be able to write those as well...
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