Author: frank phillips
Date: 06:43:00 07/29/99
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On July 28, 1999 at 23:20:22, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On July 28, 1999 at 16:16:56, Frank Phillips wrote: > >> >>I had hoped that testing for input during pondering would be as simple as >>copying the Inter()/CheckInput() code from ExChess/Crafty, but I seem to be >>missing something. >> >>Everything works fine in a non-xboard mode DOS box (simple kbhit()), but my >>program (called Searcher by the way) has stopped recognising input from >>WinBoard. >> >>In xboard mode I set setbuf(stdin, NULL) and signal(SIGINT, SIG_IGN). >> >>Any help or hints would be greatly appreciated, although I should point out that >>I know nothing about Pipes and so forth. >> >>Frank > > >Simply copy the CheckInput() function from Crafty. In a dos box, kbhit() is >ok. With winboard, you need PeekNamedPipe(). Bob Thanks for the response, but I obviously did not express myself clearly enough. What you suggest is exactly what I did. It worked in a DOS box but not with WinBoard, and I wondered whether it should have worked or if there is something else I needed to do. Frank
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