Author: José Carlos
Date: 10:59:39 09/05/99
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On September 05, 1999 at 12:27:07, James Swafford wrote:
>On September 05, 1999 at 11:45:36, Nicolas Carrasco wrote:
>
>>Dear Guys,
>>
>>Now I am able to comunicate my chess engine to Winboard but I only want to ask
>>you some questions to know if I can have any problems because at the file
>>included at Winboard.
>>
>>What this function do ?
>>setbuf(stdout, NULL);
>
>This function flushes your output to the console, so that
>it doesn't get buffered. (i.e. if you output "e4", you want
>it to be sent *right away*.)
>
>
>>
>>At winbord´s protocol file says that "scanf" can have problems so I created my
>>own function:
>>////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
>>#include <stdio.h>
>>
>>void cgets ( char *buffer )
>>{
>> char i, ch;
>> /* Read in single line from "stdin": */
>> for( i = 0; (i < 80) && ((ch = getchar()) != EOF) && (ch != '\n'); i++ )
>> buffer[i] = (char)ch;
>>
>> /* Terminate string with null character: */
>> buffer[i] = '\0';
>>}
>>/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
>>
>>I think with this works fine!
>>
>>But, can I use printf to comunicate Winboard succesfuly ?
>>
>>How crafty thinks and gets text at the same time?
>>
>>Thanks
>
>If you can compile C++, you may want to consider using cin
>and cout. I don't know what the problem is with scanf( ),
>but I haven't had any problems with cin.
>
>--
>James
I use scanf() with setbuf(stdin, NULL) and works perfectly. No problem at all.
José C.
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