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pl77 is out now and fixes the major known bugs in pl75.  I think it
still has some problems, but that's life with gnuchess.

I think Makefile.dos is for Microsoft C, but I don't think it has been
updated for a long time.  I doubt that the current gnuchess could be
compiled with 16-bit Microsoft without a lot of updates to
Makefile.dos, and maybe source changes would be needed as well.

Makefile.ddj is quite up to date in pl77.  Using it with djgpp (the
port of gcc to DOS by DJ Delorie), you should be able to compile
gnuchess easily.  I meant to do this and upload it to
chess.onenet.net, but haven't gotten around to it.  djgpp incorporates
its own DOS extender in the programs it produces, to allow 32-bit flat
addressing.  So the resulting programs require a 386 or better, but
this is not a problem for most people anymore.

Makefile.nt is also up to date in pl77.  That allows you to compile
with Microsoft VC++ 4.0 for Win32, making a 32-bit program that will
run on Windows 95 or Windows NT.  There are precompiled binaries of
gnuchessr and gnuchessx pl75 for Win32 included with the
winboard-3.4.pl1 distribution.  You can run them without winboard.

	--Tim

In article <Pine.SOL.3.94.960805140030.5359A-100000@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>, you write:
>Since there's a file src/Makefile.dos in the gnuchess-4.0pl755.tar.gz, I
>was wondering if there might be a precompiled executable lying around
>somewhere?  I've got Borland C++ rather than Microsoft C, so can't compile
>it myself (I think that Makefile's for Microsoft - please correct me if
>I'm wrong).
>
>I'm aware that pl75 had a few bugs (documented in the FAQ) - would a
>precompiled executable have been done after these were corrected?  Is pl77
>out yet?
>
>I want this for a blind DOS-user, so it needn't be anything too visual -
>gnuchessr and maybe gnuchess would be great.  (Maybe I should just
>persuade him to install Linux :-) .)