[comp.sources.d] Did cchess make it out?

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?