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Article #2752Re: WinBoard question
From: PMG
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 00:00
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Wil wrote: > Hi > I would like to bring up Winboard and play 2 engines. Is there a way > to do this without having to bring up the startup dialog and type > in the engine's names every time? > Wil What you need to do is edit your winboard.ini file so that you don't have to keep typing that stuf in all the time, you'll then be able to just select the engine that you wan't to use. Below is an example of what the end of my Winboard.ini file looks like today, but I do change it often. Notice that all of the first programs say fd=c:\\ while the second programs say sd=c:\\ Pete " /firstChessProgramNames="wCrafty-16_6 /fd=\"C:\\crafty16.6w wCrafty-16_10 /fd=\"C:\\crafty16.10w \"Gromit13 -xboardquiet\" /fd=c:\\gromitnw \"Gromit20 -xboardquiet\" /fd=c:\\gromit-w.ccc Phalanx /fd=\"C:\\Phalanx Fortress /fd=\"C:\\fortress Comet-wb /fd=\"C:\\comet LDB /fd=\"C:\\ldb20 Inmi215 /fd=\"C:\\inmi2 \"AnMon425 xboard\" /fd=c:\\AnMon425 GNUChess " /secondChessProgramNames="wCrafty-16_6 /sd=\"C:\\crafty16.6w wCrafty-16_10 /sd=\"C:\\crafty16.10w \"Gromit13 -xboardquiet\" /sd=c:\\gromitnw \"Gromit20 -xboardquiet\" /sd=c:\\gromit-w.ccc Phalanx /sd=\"C:\\Phalanx Fortress /sd=\"C:\\fortress Comet-wb /sd=\"C:\\comet LDB /sd=\"C:\\ldb20 Inmi215 /sd=\"C:\\inmi2 \"AnMon425 xboard\" /sd=c:\\AnMon425 GNUChess "
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d71d,22d6b562100984f1 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d71d,public From: PMG <avoga@Chicagonet.net> Subject: Re: WinBoard question Date: 1999/06/23 Message-ID: <37709DD9.8971353@Chicagonet.net> X-Deja-AN: 492861921 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <01bebc67$b83fe0c0$0b0a020a@mypc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: typ21b.nn.bcandid.com 930127522 209.186.4.176 (Wed, 23 Jun 1999 04:45:22 EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: avoga@Chicagonet.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 04:45:22 EDT Newsgroups: gnu.chess