home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!news.service.uci.edu!math.uci.edu!fdelahan
- From: fdelahan@math.uci.edu (Franz Delahan)
- Subject: Re: Need help with GIICS!
- Nntp-Posting-Host: math.uci.edu
- Message-ID: <2B3D28AF.17130@news.service.uci.edu>
- Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
- Organization: University of California, Irvine
- Keywords: GIICS
- Lines: 54
- Date: 27 Dec 92 03:53:20 GMT
- References: <BztvE9.BoJ@world.std.com> <2B3B7876.12098@news.service.uci.edu> <Bzw47v.72K@world.std.com>
-
- In article <Bzw47v.72K@world.std.com> mem@world.std.com (Jeff Lesser) writes:
-
- (I have omitted the copy of my response to a question about too many
- line feeds in GIICS 1.53.)
-
- >You said that 1.51 is available. Where? What will I sacrifice if I
- >downgrade?
-
- The last time I looked, GIICS 1.51 was still available by FTP from
- valkyries.andrew.cmu.edu in the directory pub/chess/DOS as a zip file
- giics151.zip requiring unzip version 5.0 to unzip it. I don't think
- there is a great difference between 1.51 and 1.53 aside from
- the problem in 1.53 with extra carriage returns. You should have
- a file called giics.rev with the 1.53 release which ought to list the
- changes since 1.51.
-
- >How did you customize your copy of GIICS? Do you have the source? Is it
- >available? What compiler did you use (I have access to Microsoft C for
- >DOS, version 7.0 -- will that do?)?
-
- When you unzip giics151.zip, you will see that the source is included.
- It was intended to be compiled by Borland C++, but uses an ASCII C subset
- and should be compilable with other C compilers and a few changes. The
- program bears a copyright by Tony Acero (ace3@quads.uchicago.edu), who
- I presume maintains it.
-
- >Also, what's the scoop with ICS 2.0 version whichever version GIICS is
- >designed to work with? Will the author upgrade GIICS?
-
- A major change was made to ICS a couple of weeks ago. I have written
- to Acero, mentioning the problems with ICS 2.0 and asking whether he
- plans to make an upgrade of GIICS. He has yet to reply.
-
- I believe the major problem with ICS 2.0 in regard to GIICS is a
- change in the Style 8 "board string" emitted by ICS. I have written to
- the person who maintains ICS (sleator@cs.cmu.edu), explaining the
- problem. He replied that he was unaware the Style 8 had changed. I
- sent him a sample from my log to explain the problem. I haven't heard
- from him yet, either.
-
- After compensating for this change, and fixing a couple of unrelated
- bugs, my personal version seems to work very well now.
-
- >Thank you for your reply last time; I hope to hear back one more time!
-
- >...Roy Eassa
-
- You're welcome.
-
-
-
-
- --
- Franz Delahan, Math. Dept., University of California at Irvine
-