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In article <1239@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au> jxp@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au (Joe Petrolito) writes:
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>I'd like to make some suggestions regarding Gnuchess. Some days ago I posted
>a request in gnu.chess for a executable version of Gnuchess 3.0 for DOS.
A lot of work has been done to improve the PC port of gnuchess lately so
it seems likely that when the PC version has been thoroly tested there will
be an exe version of gnuchess, but till then, have patience.

>The development of Gnuchess seems to be increasing at a rapid rate. We've gone
>from 1.55 (the version I have working on a Pyramid) in January to 3.0 in March!
>While this is a healthy sign of support, it is not always clear what the
>significance of the changes are. Here I'm thinking of hash tables, 'memset'
>options etc. It would be useful to have some detailed knowledge of these changes
>without having to read the source code. (In any case, I'm strictly a FORTRAN
>number-cruncher and don't know anything about C!) Incidently, version 3.0
>won't compile properly 'as-is' on the Pyramid, presumably because of the
>'memset' feature.
Yes, the documentation is lagging. There is an undocumented (yes you have
to look in the code) feature to turn of the use of memset. just add
CFLAGS= -DNOMEMSET to the makefile.

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