Re: gnuchessx hanging after openings

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From: Dave Lewney
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1993 16:45

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In article 1bi@src-news.pa.dec.com, mann@src.dec.com (Tim Mann) writes:
>Mike Sommerville tells me that he was able to work around the problem
>he had, where gnuchess would seem to hang after leaving its opening
>book, by adding -DATTENTION to the DEFINES line in his xboard
>Imakefile.  (Then, of course, typing "make Makefile; rm *.o; make".)
>
>Mike is running on Solaris 2.1.  This symptom indicates that the
>FIONREAD ioctl used in gnuchess to poll the keyboard for input is not
>working on Mike's system; I still don't understand why.
>
>Maybe the same thing would work for Dave Lewney on Solaris 2.2.
>

.. works fine now. Thanks Mike and Tim.

Dave
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