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Re: xboard 2.0 pl22 problems

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From: Duc Duong
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:30
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In article <1992Nov16.040155.1183@hawkmoon.mn.org>, det@hawkmoon.mn.org (Derek Terveer) writes:
|> I have compiled xboard 2.0 pl22 as well as gnuchess 4.0 pl58 and when i
|> run xboard it pops up a very nice chess board in my xwindows and then
|> immediately gives me the error:
|> 
|> hawkmoon:xboard-2.0$ ./xboard
|> xboard: can't open pseudo-tty
|> No such file or directory
|> 
|> I have tried to figure out what is going on there and it looks like
|> xboard is trying to get a psuedo-tty in order to spawn off the gnuchessx
|> program, but it is failing.  The xboard that comes with XFree86 works
|> fine in this regard.  The problem i have with that xboard (can't tell
|> what version it is) is that when invoked in its default mode, i.e., just
|> "xboard", and the five minutes of time expire for black (the computer),
|> xboard will put up a message "Black's flag dropped" and go into an
|> infinite loop just printing that.  I have not been able to figure out a
|> way of getting past that point.
|> 

 I have the same problem when I installed the Xboard2.0,pl25. I have no problem when compile the program on SGI310VGX/RISC4000, IRIX4.05 but when I start Xboard the Xboard window popup sucessfully about 1-2 secs then it crash. The error message is that: 
xboard: can't open pseudo-tty
no such file or directory

I think the problem is not installation procedure..some how I have to specify the path for the pseudo-tty file..etc..Is there any one have a way getting around this? Email please..Thank you..

duc
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