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Subject: Re: Can someone help me with Winboard?

Author: Martin Grabriel

Date: 20:21:07 11/16/99

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Your command line is telling winboard that the engine is in a subdirectory
called "Winboard". Is that where you put the downloaded engine?



On November 16, 1999 at 21:16:36, Imran Hendley wrote:

>Hi. Recently I have been trying to use Winboard, but I cannot seem to figure it
>out. I downloaded Crafty and put it in a sub-directory of my winboard directory.
>I tried to edit the winboard.ini file to initialize crafty from the start-up
>dialog. When I choose "match two engines" and select Mode>Two Machines, the
>clock starts for white, and I can see Crafty's thinking lines beneath the menu
>bar, but white never moves. Is there a file or part of a file that I'm missing?
>I am new to Winboard, so my mistake might be a very simple one. Can someone
>please give me some advice on this matter. Thanks in advance. PS: here is the
>end of my winboard.ini file: (Maybe I am missing some commands?)
>
>
>/firstChessProgramNames="WCrafty-17_1 /fd=\"C:\\Winboard\\Crafty\
>"
>/secondChessProgramNames="WCrafty-17_1 /sd=\"C:\\Winboard\\Crafty\
>"
>
>I also don't know what these commands mean, so maybe someone could tell me that
>too.



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