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Re: xboard confusion

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From: cursist
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1993 14:27
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In article <28si1v$soc@src-news.pa.dec.com> mann@src.dec.com (Tim Mann) writes:
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>From: mann@src.dec.com (Tim Mann)
>Newsgroups: gnu.chess
>Subject: Re: xboard confusion
>Date: 5 Oct 1993 19:31:11 GMT
>Organization: DEC Systems Research Center
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>>	I'm having this problem under SunOS 4.1.1.  I have had GNUChess
>>	4.0pl60 and XBoard 2.0 working fine together, but not GNUChess 4.0pl62
>>	and XBoard 3.0pl8.  The "illegal move" problem happens at the start
>>	of a game when "two machines" is selected; it seems OK when "machine
>>	{white,black}" is selected.
>>
>>-- 
>>Andy Duplain, BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK.          duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk
>>#define DISCLAIMER     My views and opinions are my own, and not my company's
>
>Just to close the loop here, we found that Andy's problem was that he
>had tried to customize the XBoard*initString resource in his
>.Xdefaults file, but made a syntax error.  Everything works fine for
>him now.  
>
>There is no connection between this and the various problems other
>people have had.  More on those in later messages.
>
>	--Tim
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What do you mean by later?????
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Subject: Re: xboard confusion
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1993 14:27:31 GMT
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