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- From: fdelahan@math.uci.edu (Franz Delahan)
- Subject: Re: Need help with GIICS!
- Nntp-Posting-Host: math.uci.edu
- Message-ID: <2B3B7876.12098@news.service.uci.edu>
- Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
- Organization: University of California, Irvine
- Keywords: GIICS
- Lines: 31
- Date: 25 Dec 92 21:09:10 GMT
- References: <BztvE9.BoJ@world.std.com>
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- In article <BztvE9.BoJ@world.std.com> mem@world.std.com (Jeff Lesser) writes:
- >
- >I used to be able to use GIICS fine when I was unregistered on ICS. Now
- >that I'm registered, it doesn't work. Here's what happens:
- >
- >When I log in using GIICS, it sends an extra carriage return or something
- >at the username prompt, causing ICS to repeat the prompt. Then GIICS
- >sends the correct username, and ICS recognizes it. So far, so OK, but
- >next ICS prompts for the password and GIICS sends that pesky extra
- >carriage return again! So now ICS pops back to the username prompt, and
- >GIICS sends my password. ICS thinks that this is my unregistered username
- >and proceeds from there. Thus, I cannot use GIICS to get onto ICS as a
- >registered user!
- >
- >I am using GIICS 1.53, the latest I could find on
- >valkyries.andrew.cmu.edu. I have even tried editing the .CNF file and
- >removing alternately the carriage returns and line-feeds, to no avail.
- >Does any kind soul out there know what's up and what I can do?
- >
-
- I noticed that someone had replaced "\n" with "\r\n" in the messages
- for version 1.53. I'm not sure why someone "fixed" 1.53. I had the
- same problem as you and so I use 1.51 which is still available. All
- versions have trouble with the new ICS 2.0 format. I've found the
- problems and have corrected them in my personal version. This version is
- not suitable for release since it is now too idiosyncratic, but I can
- explain how to fix the problems.
-
-
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- Franz Delahan, Math. Dept., University of California at Irvine
-