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Article #5645Re: Gnuchess 4.0 for DOS
From: Mark Webb
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1993 12:26
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1993 12:26
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campbell@slugo.hmsc.orst.edu (D. Campbell) writes: >I downloaded gnuchs40.zip, unzipped it, and put the three files noted in >the readme file into a subdirectory called "MISC." It gives an error message >on the order of "NO LANGFILE." I had the same problem. Not wanting to let it beat me, I had a look at the text strings in the binary gnuchess.exe and discovered that the Language file needs to be in C:\GAMES\GNU40\MISC It works fine and is, indeed twice as fast as the MSC 7.0 version. To force it to play its best-more-so-far, press <RETURN>. Clearer Instructions would have been nice. -- Mark Webb mwebb@maths.tcd.ie
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d71d,b338264d5235cdd0 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d71d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-02-01 04:26:16 PST Newsgroups: gnu.chess Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!paladin.american.edu!news.univie.ac.at!hp4at!mcsun!ieunet!tcdcs!maths.tcd.ie!mwebb From: mwebb@maths.tcd.ie (Mark Webb) Subject: Re: Gnuchess 4.0 for DOS Message-ID: <1993Feb1.122616.3283@maths.tcd.ie> Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. References: <1993Jan29.020443.27930@nuscc.nus.sg> <campbell.2.0@slugo.hmsc.orst.edu> Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1993 12:26:16 GMT Lines: 17