Re: [gnugo-devel] How to use GnuGo non-locally?

[Dave Denholm]

<address@hidden> writes:

> Ralph Dratman wrote:
> 
> > I would like to set up GnuGo on a Linux or FreeBSD server so that I 
> > can then play against it from other computers running various 
> > operating systems (Win98, Win2000, Mac, Linux). Only one client 
> > machine at a time will be playing.
> 
> You haven't specified very clearly exactly what you are trying
> to do. Will the two computers be together in the same room or
> will this be over the internet? Will you be manually starting
> each game or are you interested in collecting large numbers
> of games?
> 
> If you can describe your intended experiment more accurately
> we can probably give you better advice.
> 
> The simplest way of playing different computers together
> is to connect them with a null modem cable and use the Go Modem
> Protocol to communicate. This is the way computer tournaments
> work. Most machines at a computer tournament run Windows, a
> minority run Linux.
> 

Should be easy enough to set things up to use a TCP socket in place of
a cable.

Eg could add an entry to /etc/inetd.conf so that the server listens
on a well known port, and spawns gnugo when a connection is made.
gnugo will run with stdin/stdout connected to the socket.

Then you need a clinet which will connect to a port.
Can do it using netcat for example. Eg in cgoban tell it
to spawn   netcat server:port   as the program. 

dd
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