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Article #2862Re: cmail and xboard
From: Bob Dixon
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 00:00
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Never mind. Reading the documentation is occasionally a good idea. The -ncp option brings it up in stand-alone mode, and the man page answered other questions also. Bob Bob Dixon wrote: > > 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 -- Bob Dixon (sasrmd@unx.sas.com) Tool Development and Training SAS Institute, Inc. 919-677-8000, x6685, R-2138
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