Re: [XBoard-devel] got some feedback from FICS

[Eric Mullins]

Arun Persaud wrote:
> a) one person is running winboard with an engine as a robot on FICS and he 
> wanted to know if it is possible to run winboard without opening any windows, 
> so that he can run it as a daemon in the background
>   

I don't think winboard/xboard can do that.  I highly recommend icsdrone 
instead if you want to daemonize.

see: http://alpha.uhasselt.be/Research/Algebra/Toga/icsdroneng-release/

To build a windows binary, he'll need the cygwin tools.  If the engine 
is UCI, he'll also need polyglot.  It's on my agenda to put together a 
HOWTO for running in this manner complete with the required windows 
binaries.  I just haven't gotten to it yet.
> b) do we have documentation about the book-format for engines... never use 
> engines, so I'm a bit clueless here ;)
>