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Subject: Re: wcrafty 17.0

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 08:40:51 11/16/99

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On November 16, 1999 at 11:13:58, Dragos Gabudeanu wrote:

>    Generally, I am familiar with the integration between Winboard and crafty.
>My winboard version is 4.0.3.  I just downloaded the wcrafty-17.0 executable and
>changed the "FCP" in winboard.ini to reflect the new crafty engine.  With older
>crafty's winboard worked flawlessly, but not with this 17.0 version.
>
>    When I start winboard I get the message:
>
>"Fatal error, startup failure on 'wcrafty-17.0':  The system cannot find the
>specified file."  ???  The executable of CRAFTY is already in the winboard
>directory.  Strangely, if instead I run gnuchess then winboard does recognize
>gnuchess....
>
>                           Thank you for any ideas,
>                              Dragos Gabudeanu

It sounds to me like you specified the file name wrong.

Post that part of the winboard.ini file and tell us exactly what the file name
is for Crafty 17.0, I see wcrafty-17.0.exe on Bob's site.

Pete



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