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I have compiled GNU chess 4.0 p62 on my PC using djgpp (GNU C). I have found
some obvious bugs:
gnuchess tried to do a fopen(NULL) when searching for the ASCII book; it then
checks the result of the fopen. This causes a segmentation fault. (found in
main.c).
checkbook says the first move in the gnuchess.bk1 is illegal, but does not say
why. bincheck also does not work correctly.
I've created a hashfile (~250kB), but it's all zeroes. gnuchess does not touch
it.
Having looked at the misc/gnuchess.lang file, I've noticed several problems:
There are messages that should (must) be of a fixed size; some should not be
translated (otherwise the saved files from one language can't be read into
one using a different language).

I suggest to structure the language file appropriately. Id also suggest to
implement a "position-independent printf" for different languages.
Example: piprintf("%{1}4d moves in %{2}4.1f seconds\n", moves, seconds)
Similar to the shell "{1}" means the first printf-argument, and so on...

It also seems to be a good idea to print a message for every 50 openings
processed (when building the binary opening library) rather than every 1000
consumed entries (it takes a VERY LONG TIME on slow machines). And coming to the end it takes longer and longer... (having put >12000 openings in my file)

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Ulrich Windl
Universitaet Regensburg, Rechenzentrum DV-med
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D-93042 Regensburg, Germany
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Universitaet Regensburg, Rechenzentrum DV-med
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