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Article #5815Re: Xboard 2.0.17
From: Tim Mann
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1992 02:29
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1992 02:29
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I've already replied privately to Mitch about this, but as his message appears on gnu.chess I thought I'd post a reply here too. "xboard gnuchessx" is incorrect syntax. Correct syntax is just "xboard" (gnuchessx is the default chess program) or "xboard -fcp gnuchessx". The incorrect syntax appears in an example in the gnuchess (not xboard) README file; hopefully that will be corrected in the next gnuchess patchlevel. The problem with the -matchMode option was due to an incompatibility in the tolower() function used in a few places in xboard. Old versions of this function give a garbage result unless the argument is an uppercase letter, so the code "isupper(c) ? tolower(c) : c" must be used instead of "tolower(c)". I'll change xboard to use this idiom in patchlevel 20. The bug in printing error messages will also be fixed in patchlevel 20. Thanks, Mitch! --Tim
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d71d,30d83ce7bb947267 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d71d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-06-08 14:33:36 PST Newsgroups: gnu.chess Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!decwrl!pa.dec.com!src.dec.com!src.dec.com!mann From: mann@src.dec.com (Tim Mann) Subject: Re: Xboard 2.0.17 Message-ID: <1992Jun9.022956.8203@src.dec.com> Sender: news@src.dec.com (News) Reply-To: mann@src.dec.com Organization: DEC Systems Research Center References: <1992Jun7.080812.12713@cirrus.com> Date: Tue, 9 Jun 92 02:29:56 GMT Lines: 19