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announcing xboard and winboard 4.0.3

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From: Tim Mann
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 00:00
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Sorry for the previous post with the announcement encoded in base64.
No flames, please.

   --Tim

** Announcing the release of XBoard and WinBoard, version 4.0.3 **

A new release of both XBoard and WinBoard is now available.  Version
4.0.3 is an update to version 4.0.2 that fixes a few small bugs and
adds some very minor features.  It has not been extensively tested, so
please report any apparent new bugs.  Many known bugs and deficiencies
in 4.0.2 have not been addressed.  It is not necessary to report your
favorite bug again if you have reported it before, unless the
ChangeLog erroneously says it has been fixed.

You can get both programs from my Chess page on the World Wide Web. In
addition, they should soon be available from the Internet Chess
Library FTP site and the GNU FTP sites.

- http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Tim_Mann/chess.html
- ftp://ftp.freechess.org/pub/chess/X/xboard-4.0.3.tar.gz 
- ftp://ftp.freechess.org/pub/chess/Win3/winboard-4_0_3.exe (zip format)

XBoard is a graphical chessboard for the X Window System that can
serve as a user interface for GNU Chess, Crafty, and other chess
engines, for the Internet Chess Servers, and for electronic mail
correspondence chess.  XBoard can also be used by itself.  It can read
and write game files in PGN (portable game notation).

WinBoard is a similar program for Microsoft Windows 95/98 and Windows
NT.  It includes all the major features of XBoard except email
correspondence chess.  Warning: WinBoard does not work on Windows 3.1
or 3.11, not even with Win32s.

Report bugs in XBoard and WinBoard to <bug-gnu-chess@gnu.org>.

	--Tim Mann <mann@pa.dec.com>

=== Selected change highlights in 4.0.3 ===

* Changed all Zippy environment variables to work as command line
options.  For now they still work as environment variables too, but
the environment variables are deprecated.  This change provides a way
to have Zippy issue several ICS commands at game end, because there is
syntax to get a newline into the command line option (whereas for
Windows, there was no way to get a newline into the environment
variable value).

* Zippy now exits if the engine dies unexpectedly.

* Added Zippy "spoofedby" feature; see zippy.README.

* Sundry bug fixes; see ChangeLog for details.
-- 
Tim Mann <mann@pa.dec.com>, Compaq Systems Research Center
http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Tim_Mann/
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From: mann@src.dec.com (Tim Mann)
Subject: announcing xboard and winboard 4.0.3
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