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Re: Oh oh: "Fatal error"

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From: PMG
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 00:00
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Michael Fuhrmann wrote:

> I edited my winboard.ini file to add crafty under firstchessprogramnames,
> after gnuchess. No problem, everything worked fine.
>
> But when I tried to do the same thing and add crafty under
> secondprogramnames, I got this "fatal error" message when I tried to run
> winboard: Failed to start first chess program on local host: No LANGFILE
> (file gnu.chess lang not found).
>
> What have I done wrong?

Most likely mistake would be that you just copied the first program stuff
that would have gone something like: wCrafty-16_8 /fd=\"C:\\crafty16.8w  but
in the second program you need to change ' /fd= ' to  '/sd=' as in:
wCrafty-16_8 /sd=\"C:\\crafty16.8w

Pete
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