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STRANGE PROBLEM WITH GNUCHESS4.0

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From: ShAytAn
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 19:38
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	Hello all,
I'm trying to get a version of Gnuchess4.0 running smoothly.
In particular, I'm using pl74.  The problem is that when I'm running it for
a while(about 20-40 moves) it crashes.  I was running in ICS mode(that is,
I let Gnuchess play against other people on ICS  using XBoard interface
with Zippy extension.
	Here are some indications of the problem:
1)It crashes only when playing.  When Gnuchess crashes, the first message
in the Xboard console is "WRITE FAILED: USER DISK LIMIT REACHED" even
though I made sure that I had some disk space available.
2)The second message is "ERROR: FIRST CHESS PROGRAM(GNUCHESSX) EXITED
UNEXPECTEDLY."

	System hardware and software: not so sure about the chip because I
couldn't use sysinfo comm.  Possibly DEC ALPHA - OSF/2 - Unix under X WIndows.
	Compile options: I only changed the bin and lib directories

	Possible probem: I figure that while It's playing, It tries to
write to the hashfile and there's not enough disk space for it(I have a
student account, so there is a disk limit around 2-3M). However, I don't
know how to turn the hashfile option ON or OFF.  Futhermore, when I exited
Xboard, I saw a file named "core" and it's always around 65000 bytes. So
I think that if I can turn the hashfile option OFF, It will be OK.

Anyone with any idea of what the problem may be, please post your solution
or e-mail me.  I greatly appriciate it.
						Sincerely,
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From: cosc19yo@bayou.uh.edu (ShAytAn)
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Subject: STRANGE PROBLEM WITH GNUCHESS4.0
Date: 13 Mar 1995 19:38:19 GMT
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