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Subject: Re: UCI (=universal chess interface)

Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen

Date: 07:44:53 12/01/00

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On November 30, 2000 at 12:00:42, David Eppstein wrote:

>On November 29, 2000 at 16:36:02, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote:
>>On November 29, 2000 at 13:56:25, David Eppstein wrote:
>>>On November 28, 2000 at 09:15:30, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote:
>>>>* The specification is independend of the operationg system. For Windows,
>>>>  the engine is a normal exe file, either a console or "real" windows
>>>>application.
>>>>
>>>>* all communication is done via standard input and output with plain text
>>>>commands,
>>>
>>>These two statements contradict each other.  Some of us run operating systems
>>>without any "pipe" facility (i.e., MacOS versions 9 or earlier).
>>
>>I bet you have fprintf(stdout, ....) and gets(..), that'll do.
>
>Yes, stdio library exists.  But, you can only direct input/output to a disk file
>or to a window on the screen.  You can not direct it to/from another program.

I didn't know that.

Stefan



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