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In article <36DBCFAD.9A8813E0@wnt.sas.com>,
Bob Dixon  <sasrmd@wnt.sas.com> wrote:
>  I'm just getting started with cmail and xboard, and there are a few
>things I'm not getting the hang of.
>
>  First, it produces mail messages with MIME attachments my opponent
>can't understand.  Can I get it to just generate a "normal" text
>message?

The message is plain text, but with MIME type application/x-chess.  If
your opponent just tells his mail reader to treat this type as plain
text, he will be fine.

If he can't do that, load the "cmail" script into your favorite text
editor, find the place where it says "application/x-chess", and change
it to "text/plain".

>  Second, I'm trying to manually enter the game moves, since the e-mail
>interface isn't working out for me.  When I load the game from a *.pgn
>file, enter the latest move, and save it, it saves it as a second game
>in the same file rather than overwriting the original.  How do you use
>cmail manually, i.e. without the mail interface?

I'm not sure what it means to use cmail without the mail interface.
cmail *is* the mail interface.

I think what you are really asking is a question about using xboard
without cmail.  Yes, Save Game always appends a new game to a file; it
wasn't intended for use in this application, where you always want to
load a game, make it one move longer, and save it back.  If you need
to work around this, you could save the game into a new file and
delete the original.

    --Tim
-- 
Tim Mann <mann@pa.dec.com>, Compaq Systems Research Center
http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Tim_Mann/