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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [FreeBSD 1.0R] How to compile XChess? Date: 5 Jan 1994 21:54:27 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 22 Message-ID: <2gfcuj$9he@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <SWILDNER.94Jan5174209@channelz.gun.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <SWILDNER.94Jan5174209@channelz.gun.de>, Sascha Wildner <swildner@channelz.GUN.de> wrote: >Are there patches to get the stuff in /usr/src/gnu/chess/Xchess to >run? Dealing with those ascii chars can be quite confusing. I >managed to get a running executable by commenting out a few things, >but I got a lot of errors while playing and the board was not updated >correctly. To be honest, your best bet would be to grab the latest version from wherever and see if it compiles. I don't believe anyone has even looked at XChess, we just left it in there for historic reasons. If you get that version working, we'd be glad to roll the patches into the next version. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me