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Re: GNU Chess 4.0 patchlevel 79 available now

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From: Njam Njam
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 00:00
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On 28 Sep 1998 23:23:03 GMT, mann@src.dec.com (Tim Mann) wrote:

>>Will it soon be compiled for Win32s platform?
>
>Do you really mean Win32s, or do you mean Win32?  Win32s was a
>compatibility package that let you run a small subset of Win32
>programs on Windows 3.1.  Current Microsoft compilers can no longer
>build programs for Win32s.  Win32 is the 32-bit API for Windows 95/98
>and Windows NT.

Well, actually I meant  those programs that runs under Win3.1x +
Win32s support, and  has additional Conor McCarthy copyright info
(files named: gnuchessPC-4.14.zip, gnuchessPC-4.15.zip at prep site).
As I see, those files were compiled from patchlevel 77 using Watcom C
11.0.

>Anyway, there are no changes from patchlevel 77 to 79 that would make
>a recompile for Win32 useful.  Patchlevel 78 fixed a minor problem
>that affects you only if you compile for a 64-bit machine from source.
>Patchlevel 79 has no code changes, only a new FAQ (which has also been
>posted to this newsgroup).

Thanks for that info.
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