Re: UCI issue in 6.2.5

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Hi Ryan,

Thanks for your report. Yes, it seems the same problem that was found a
couple of years ago. Could you please indicate the version of XBoard and
operating system that you are using? I don't think it will make a big
difference,
but it can be helpful.

Cheers,
Antonio

On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 8:04 PM Ryan Sarson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I have the same issue as John Cheetham, from his post a couple of
> years ago.  The issue persists with the latest build I could find,
> 6.2.5e.  I use both Scid and Xboard and, in both cases, they appear to
> hang when trying to play a game against gnuchessu.  When running
> gnuchessu from the command line, the appearance of 'White (1) : "
> requires at least a newline to be entered before the 'uci' command
> will work as expected.
>
> It seems related to the removal of the 'showprompt' and 'ShowPrompt()'
> lines from main.cc and frontend/engine.cc from 6.2.4 but I do not know
> enough about C programming to fix it - other things break if i just
> add the deleted lines back in.
>
> Ryan
>
>

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lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br=
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border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hello!<br>
<br>
I have the same issue as John Cheetham, from his post a couple of<br>
years ago.=C2=A0 The issue persists with the latest build I could find,<br>
6.2.5e.=C2=A0 I use both Scid and Xboard and, in both cases, they appear to=
<br>
hang when trying to play a game against gnuchessu.=C2=A0 When running<br>
gnuchessu from the command line, the appearance of &#39;White (1) : &quot;<=
br>
requires at least a newline to be entered before the &#39;uci&#39; command<=
br>
will work as expected.<br>
<br>
It seems related to the removal of the &#39;showprompt&#39; and &#39;ShowPr=
ompt()&#39;<br>
lines from main.cc and frontend/engine.cc from 6.2.4 but I do not know<br>
enough about C programming to fix it - other things break if i just<br>
add the deleted lines back in.<br>
<br>
Ryan<br>
<br>
</blockquote></div>

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