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Subject: Re: wcrafty 17.0

Author: Dragos Gabudeanu

Date: 14:40:50 11/16/99

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On November 16, 1999 at 11:40:51, Pete Galati wrote:

>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

Now it works--in the winboard.ini file I added the '.exe' extension.  However
when I downloaded the executable in my directory the name is is wcrafty-17.0 and
not wcrafty-17.0.exe  ....

Anyway, it works well now :)

             Dragos



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