Re: xboard: No value provided for argument -firstChessProgram

This error message would be printed when during parsing of options it runs
into the end of the line or file when it expects a value. And it then
litterally prints the option for which it expected the value.

From this you can see that it did not object to your command line, because
your command line contains only '-fcp', and not '-firstChessProgram'. That
these mean the same is entirely coincidental; I expect you would get the
same error message when you would do "xboard -ncp". The message must refer
to something it reads from a settings file. The settings files are read
before the arguments on the command line is parsed.

As '-firstChessProgram' is a volatile option XBoard would never save it in
the user settings file. So it must be in the master settings file,
/etc/xboard.conf (or in some distros /etc/xboard/xboard.conf, or when you
installed from source perhaps /usr/local/etc/xboard.conf). That file must
somehow contain an syntactically incorrect -firstChessProgram option. But
that is not the case in the version we distribute.

Op Za, 5 december, 2015 5:02 am schreef DWL:
> Hi,
>
>
> I'm getting the Subject message when I execute 'xboard' from the command
> line. Unfortunately, the man page and web page don't offer much useful
> information about what argument is valid for this option. If I try this:
>
> xboard -fcp gnuchess
>
> or this:
>
> xboard -fcp -gnuchessx
>
> I get the same message.
>
>
> Relevant version information:
>
>
> % xboard --version
> xboard version 4.8.0
>
> % gnuchess --version
> GNU Chess 6.2.2
>
>
> Host platform is FreeBSD 10.2.
>
>
> Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks,
> dan
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