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Article #4869Re: gnuchessx probs
From: Tim Mann
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 00:50
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 00:50
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> When i run gnuchess4.0 and type in gnuchessx while in xwindows, i am getting > a run-time error. It's printing out the word "Chess" on the screen and then > freezing. Does it take a while to set up or is the file no good. > > Michael Gradman I'm guess that you were expecting gnuchessx to be a graphical version of gnuchess for X. But in fact it is just the back end. You need to get xboard, which is the graphical front end. Then when you run xboard, it automatically starts up a copy of gnuchessx in the background for you. (By the way, gnuchessx isn't freezing; it's just waiting to be given a command.) --Tim
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d71d,6cabc87bda325d8b X-Google-Attributes: gid10d71d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-09-15 06:33:37 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!news.onramp.net!convex!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!olivea!decwrl!pa.dec.com!src.dec.com!mann From: mann@src.dec.com (Tim Mann) Newsgroups: gnu.chess Subject: Re: gnuchessx probs Date: 15 Sep 1994 00:50:04 GMT Organization: DEC Systems Research Center Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3585ns$3dh@src-news.pa.dec.com> References: <1994Sep10.235025.5794@nmt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: src-mail.pa.dec.com