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Simon Waters wrote:
> There is a documentation file in the tar ball, hopefully the
> packager kept this to hand (/usr/share/doc ?).
>
Alas, on FreeBSD 4.8, it appears not ...

> No rc file yet, I have a patch to try but it needs some thought. ...
> There is "gnuchess --help". Post and Hashsize can be set via commandline.
> ... It should be trivial to add "analyze" as a command line option.
>
For my purposes, commandline options would be nicer than an rc file,
because I wouldn't have to untype them if I then just wanted a game.

What about a general -c option to run any command, e.g.
   gnuchess -c post -c force -c 'level 1 100 6000' -c 'pgnload gloop.pgn'
That way you wouldn't have to be adding new options all the time.

> > Apart from "expect", is there a way of starting up gnuchess
> > automatically with the same sequence of commands ?
> Xboard will do this (and can enable analysis mode).
> SCID will pass options for analysis.
>
When the man page rises to the top of its todo list, I'd love to
know what the best way is of running gnuchess from another program.
A Perl script, for example.

I myself wrote and maintain several CPAN modules, in case that's
useful.  All mine are pure Perl, though, I haven't touched any
invoking-C-from-Perl stuff yet.

> I wrote myself a short perl script to analyse PGN files.
>
I'd love to see that... I also did a Perl implementation of my
disfunctional shell script, but it only achieved the same result.

> I'd not thought people would want analysis from a raw command line,
>
Oh, definitely.  Only real way to do it.  Lean, elegant, highest
performance; cut-and-paste and resizing work consistent with all
other applications, etc.

Best regards,  Peter Billam

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