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Article #1293Re: (no subject)
From: Rich Chase
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:09
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:09
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Simon Waters wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Rich Chase wrote: > | JEAN D. DORANCY wrote: > | > |> Hi, > |> > |> What is it that I specifically have to click on to download the chess > |> games? I don't know which files to click on because there are so many. > |> My operating system is Windows XP. Thanks. > | > | GNU is not intended for Windows XP. > > As far as I know GNU Chess runs fine under Winboard. > > Judging by the number of Microsoft Windows viruses I get sent apparently > from Cracraft's old GNU email address, a lot of people have GNU Chess 5 > installed under Windows who don't know enough about computers to be > safely let lose with one. > > But anyone so clueless as not to type the name of the software they want > into a search engine and follow the links, or write a subject line, is > probably clueless enough to fall outside our target user base - I don't > need more Windows viruses they don't run under my GNU based operating > system ;) > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Comment: Using GnuPG with Debian - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFA/cD8GFXfHI9FVgYRAjNVAKDGeYyySsW97Vj8ZAHwUT77ZUrfJACdExxt > wHVSK+KLpZ1bAeSQJ0e/4ww= > =k1o6 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Several interesting points. :~) I suppose many of the GNU projects are portable to various platforms, including but not limited to Cygwin and minGW. A few are actually portable to native win32 without such kluges (not intended to insult Cygwin and minGW, products of genius -- just pointing out that Winblows has to be kluged to run posix software). Anyway, I didn't want to take the time to read documentation, so I did a quick search on sourceforge for a native Win project for chess. That way I could SEEM helpful without doing much work ;~)
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