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Michael Powe wrote:
> I could not get cmail to work correctly for me.  It appears to have no
> functionality to allow you to start using it in the middle of a game
> - -- it seems only to work if you start using it when you start the
> game.  Also, I did not care for its design (keeping two non-standard
> files for each game).
> 
> The way I've used Xboard for email chess is to do just what you're
> doing right now -- keep the games in a pgn file and then manually
> erase the old game after each new move.  This does get annoying but it
> does work.  After making and saving the moves, I just imported the
> file into the email message.
> 
> mp

  I tried invoking xboard without cmail and got an error: 

Failed to start first chess program gnuchessx on localhost: gnuchessx:
No such file or directory

  I don't have gnuchess installed.  Do you need to install it to use
xboard by itself, to just record game moves?

Bob