Re: [eboard-devel] "tells you" problem

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Stefan Fredriksson wrote:

Hello,

it was because of the '2' in the name, FICS does not allow numbers in
handles:

(on FICS, freechess.org)
> finger aries2
'aries2' is not a valid handle.

eboard's FICS protocol tries to be as strict as possible when detecting
personal tells and game strings, so I prevent strings with numbers from
being recognized as handles. If your server allows handles with numbers
you'll probably have problems detecting game strings, game lists and
everything else.

The correct solution here would be to have a new protocol class on eboard
for your server, which happens to be...

(telnet chessclub.com , g<enter>, finger aries2, quit)...
ICC _does not_ run the same server code as FICS, I don't have an account
at ICC and thus do not know the protocol differences. If eboard works with
ICC, that's just an unexpected side-effect from the implementation of FICS
support.

The correct solution for ICC support is to have a separate protocol class
inside eboard for it.
I'm not truly against such support, but it will only get implemented if

a) someones else writes the code.

b) ICC pays me to do it.

The ICC users may cheer up on ICC to get someone who is both a Unix C++
programmer and an ICC user to do [a] (maybe you have something like FICS's
channel 85 Unix_Linux, that would be just the place to find the right
guy).

I rather doubt [b] will ever happen. Not only it's unlikely to happen from
ICC's side, but I have zero knowledge of ICC's idiosyncrasyes, know none
of ICC admins, and a long-time ICC user can do the job much better than
me.

Meanwhile... play at FICS --> http://www.inficad.com/~ecollins/why-pay.htm

(and if your previous mail about swedish characters was reporting the
behavior of ICC, the 8-bit restriction I mentioned is on FICS with FICS
timeseal. I also know nothing about ICC's timestamp, except the it is
called timestamp)

> I just noticed that the following wasnt highlighted as "tells". Im not
> sure if it is because if the (IM) because (*) works.
>
> aries2(IM) tells you: "catching"?
> aries2(IM) tells you: aha, computer cheating :)
>
> Those two were not highlighted but everything else seems fine.

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