janc@palam.eecs.umich.edu (Jan Wolter) (03/28/88)
After posting cchess to comp.sources.games, I was rather surprised to get virtually no response. To post a program of that size and get no bug reports seems beyond the realm of probability. I've been rather reluctant to say anything about it, since it seems possible that it was just found too dull to pay much attention to. However, after the moderater posted it, I never got a complete distribution. In the original posting. Part 4 (containing a good chunk of the source and all of the documentation) was missing. This was reposted a few weeks later, but the repost I recieved contained only the first 40 or so lines of the shar file. I got about a half dozen requests for part 4, which I answered by mail. I haven't seen any messages that tended to indicate that anyone got the whole thing. So, what I'm trying to figure out is (1) did anyone get a usable distribution? (2) does anyone care? For those who don't know, cchess is a program that moderates a game of correspondence chess between two people on the same machine. It enforces all rules of chess, or those of any of a dozen or so fairy chess games. It should work on just about any Unix, and with just about any terminal. - Jan Wolter janc@crim.eecs.umich.edu
swh@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (Steve Harrold) (03/28/88)
Re: cchess I'm still waiting to see part 4. That piece is missing from what arrived at this location. Will you please send repost it?