jeffs@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Jeff Shaw) (03/09/89)
I don't know why chess was not included in 4.0, but you can fix the problem by pulling off an old version from one of your 3.X archive tapes. Don't restore the old chesstool program though. Use chess(3.X) with chesstool(4.0).
knudsen@ihlpl.att.com (Knudsen) (03/30/89)
Hmmm, our 4.0 *seemed* to include (unless someone snatched it from elsewhere) the single binary that include Chess, Backgammon, Boggle, CHeckers, and maybe Life. I think it's named "chesstool" under /usr/bin/games and all the others (like gammontool) are symbolic-linked to it. The combined binary is just about exactly a quarter MByte. Mike Knudsen Bell Labs(AT&T) att!ihlpl!knudsen [[ "Chesstool" is there. And it is the same executable as gammontool, boggletool, life, etc. But chesstool wants to start up a program called "chess" to actually do the playing. And it's the program "chess" that is missing. --wnl ]]
knudsen@ihlpl.att.com (Knudsen) (04/22/89)
> "Chesstool" is there. And it is the same executable as gammontool, > boggletool, life, etc. But chesstool wants to start up a program called > "chess" to actually do the playing. And it's the program "chess" that is > missing. --wnl How about that. I tried to start up /usr/games/chesstool, and the "chess" binary is missing here too, on a 3/60 running 4.0x. I had noticed earlier when perusing the error message strings that the chess system seemed to run a pipe or something between two processes -- guess back the old days it wouldn't all fit in core. [[ Not really. "chess" predates "chesstool" by many years. One of the fulcrums of the Unix philosophy is connecting tools together with pipes. Why reimplement "chess" when you don't have to? "gammontool" works the same way. So does "bc". --wnl ]] And thanks to the one poster for discovering the "strings" utility (though we'd already written our own, sort of). -- Mike Knudsen Bell Labs(AT&T) att!ihlpl!knudsen Round and round the while() loop goes; "Whether it stops," Turing says, "no one knows!"
ken@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Ken Rossman) (05/06/89)
Hmmm... I was missing my 'chess' binary also, but I thought I had flushed it acccidentally. I guess maybe it's not distributed normally. Found another one lying around somewhere, put it in place, and chesstool is a happy puppy again now. /Ken [[ Shouldn't be wasting your time playing those useless games, anyway. :-) --wnl ]]