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Article #2077Re: fics?
From: Simon Waters
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:40
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:40
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mike and/or carrie wrote: > > anybody know if the fics server is ever coming back? As a Linux user you are probably using xboard. The timeseal executable has the IP address hard coded. Try telnet freechess.org and read the relevant news items on modifying the timeseal binary using 'sed' to use the new IP address. As for the perils of hard coding IP addresses - well that belongs in comp.risks *8-) Simon -- Want to learn about Linux? Get it installed? Devon and Cornwall LUG Event for UK Linux Day Exeter University - Sunday April 29th 2001 10:00 to 17:00 www.linuxday.org.uk or join D&C LUG www.lug.termisoc.org
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d71d,dd23483c94896678 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d71d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-17 02:45:09 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!news.iac.net!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!EU.net!npeer.kpnqwest.net!newsfeed.icl.net!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!wretched.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: Simon Waters <Simon@wretched.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: gnu.chess Subject: Re: fics? Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 10:40:55 +0100 Organization: Eighth Layer Limited Message-ID: <3ADC0FA7.320269FC@wretched.demon.co.uk> References: <3ADBD2C5.E0F0589B@efn.org> Reply-To: Simon@wretched.demon.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: wretched.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: wretched.demon.co.uk:193.237.109.203 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 987500385 nnrp-01:27344 NO-IDENT wretched.demon.co.uk:193.237.109.203 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.17 i686) X-Accept-Language: en-GB, en-US, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 20