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Re: Bug (1): 5.0 self-destructs in 5 moves

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From: McRiley
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 00:00
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In article <867qnu$ons$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk>, Angus Rodgers wrote:
>McRiley <mcriley@telia.com> wrote in message
>news:slrn884c2g.d12.mcriley@mcriley.home...
>
>> Do you have the log.xxx for this game?
>
>Unfortunately not, because I didn't know about the log.xxx facility.
>I'm using it now, so if the bug shows up again I'll be able to post
>the details.  Should I post them here or to bug-gnu-chess@ai.mit.ed
>(or both)?

I really dont know. It would probably be best to post it here first to
get some discussion about it.

>Incidentally, the command line I'm now using is:
>"...\winboard.exe"  -cp -fcp "GNUChes5 xboard" -scp "GNUChes5 xboard"
>-initString "new\nrandom\nname John Doe\n"
>Is that the right way to do it?  (I had tried giving the 'name "..."'
>parameter, with the name in double quotes, as part of the first of the
>two embedded GNUChes5 command lines, this as a whole being enclosed in
>single quotes; but this didn't seem to work.)

No idea, I dont use winboard. I use xboard.

>> Also, your signature misses a space " ". It should start with "-- "
>> and not "--".
>
>Thanks, I've fixed that on my e-mail signature.  Unfortunately
>the "--" in my newsgroup signature is inserted by Microsoft!
>... Hang on a mo ... this one looks like a "-- " to me! ...
>But now that I'm re-editing the message, Outlook Express has
>gone and stripped the blank off the end!  (It's always doing
>silly things like that, inserting spurious carriage returns
>and so on.)

Yeah, go MS! Can't you just add a "-- " in your signature and let OE
put its "--" cause the one you just posted was not right.

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/McRiley
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Subject: Re: Bug (1): 5.0 self-destructs in 5 moves
Date: 2000/01/20
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