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Gnuchess and xboard: I need a clue

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From: Doak Heyser
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:30
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   I've got Gnuchess 4.0 patchlevel 55 and Xboard 2.0 and can't seem to
get them talking to each other.  I'm on a Sun sparc under SunOS
4.1.1 and have compiled both packages using GCC 2.0.  When I run xboard
a window comes up with the board and pieces but the only command button
I see is the one that says 'Machine Black' (and it is highlighted).
Nothing else happens.  If I do a ps I see that gnuchess and xboard are
running:

	3336 p8 S     0:00 xboard
	3337 p8 S     0:00 gnuchessx 40 5

   If I kill gnuchess then the rest of the command buttons in the xboard
window appear and they work fine although I get a message that says:
'xboard:  first chess program (gnuchessx) exited unexpectedly.  If I
run xboard with the -noChessProgram TRUE option xboard runs fine.  If I
run gnuchessx by hand it appears to run fine.  
   I've changed many of the options in my app-defaults/XBoard resources
file and they all work except for this problem with gnuchess and xboard
together.  Since no else seems to be having this problem I imagine it's
me doing something stupid (very likely).  Does anyone have any clues?
Thanks.

- Doak Heyser
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Subject: Gnuchess and xboard: I need a clue
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