Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
Date: 05:50:06 02/27/00
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On February 26, 2000 at 18:40:47, Dan Newman wrote: >On February 26, 2000 at 06:22:14, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote: > >>On February 26, 2000 at 04:54:01, Dan Newman wrote: >> >>>On February 25, 2000 at 12:51:43, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >>> >>>>I think that winboard also supports automatic play of 2 engines in a ip >network. I never tried and i am not 100% sure. Does anybody know more ? >>>> >>>>Regards, Uli >>> >>>I've done it. The main trick is making it work using Win9x since >>>that OS doesn't come with any builtin rshell capablility. There are >>>a few rshell daemons available for Win9x around on the net. The >>>one I found sort of worked, but tended to eat the first few Winboard >>>commands at the start of a match. So I wrote my own pseudo-rshell >>>server (by looking at what Winboard was doing). >>> >>>-Dan. >> >>I am using pipes for network communication. >>The problem is that in Win9x you can't open an existing pipe on another >>computer. Do you have any ideas who to handle this? >> >>Stefan > >That sounds like a nice feature--to be able to open a pipe on another >machine... The way Winboard/rsh works is to translate the pipe stuff to >socket stuff and back. To allow full duplex communication you need to >run the translators in their own threads or use some Windows message stuff >perhaps. In my case I end up with several processes running when I do >a Winboard match: Winboard on one machine, and an rshell daemon and engine >running on each of the other two machines... > >-Dan. Try pipes. Full duplex network communinication is really easy with NT then. Check my source code of the windows autoplayer to get more info. Stefan
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