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-ChangeLog for XBoard/WinBoard
-
-* 11/26/2003: In WinBoard, setting the -debug flag now logs ICS output
-to WinBoard.debug too. (This isn't needed in xboard because ICS
-output already goes to stdout, so it's easy to capture along with the
-debug output on stderr.) This was issue #280 in the ToDo file.
-
-* 11/23/2003: Cleaned up some minor problems in cygwin.mak. Thanks to
-Hans Werner Strube for the problem report.
-
-* 11/23/2003: Updated the default list of chess servers in
-winboard/defaults.h. Deleted two that appear to be dead and added a
-new one that is active.
-
-* 11/19/2003: Swapped icon_white.bm and icon_black.bm in XBoard.
-Hopefully this will get them the right way around by default on more X
-window managers. I wish I understood this better.
-
-* 11/18/2003: Implemented a simple 32-bit random number generator for
-WinBoard, replacing the Windows rand(), which ranges only up to
-0x7fff. Formerly on Windows, only zippy.lines sayings that started in
-the first 32767 bytes of the file could ever be used. This was issue
-#505 from the ToDo file.
-
-* 11/16/2003: The xboard man page and info files are now built from a
-common set of texinfo source files, and the xboard man page now covers
-cmail as well. Formerly, ever since the texinfo file was first
-contributed to the project, it was separate from the man page and the
-two files had to be updated in parallel, making for a maintenance
-nightmare. To make combining the files possible, I took the Perl
-script "texi2man" from the GNU Units project and added support for a
-larger subset of the texinfo markup language. I then carefully
-compared the old man page and old texinfo file to make sure the latest
-and clearest words survived into the new combined texinfo file. It
-would be great to merge in WinBoard's help file too, but that's a
-larger project. It would have to be heavily conditionalized to
-deal with differences in features between XBoard and WinBoard.
-
-* 11/15/2003: Cleaned up and applied a small patch from Daniel
-Mehrmann, to stop overly long PVs in thinking output from causing a
-buffer overflow crash in backend.c.
-
-* 11/5/2003: When a chess engine sends a "telluser" command (including
-the cases where "tellall" or "tellopponent" acts like telluser), the
-information now goes into a nonmodel popup that is automatically
-dismissed when the user clicks anywhere on the board. This fix is
-more significant on WinBoard, where formerly you got a fully modal
-dialog that had to be dismissed by clicking on OK before anything else
-could happen. The bug was issue #406 in the ToDo file.
-
-* 11/1/2003: Removed email addresses from this file to reduce spam
-load, as it gets linked to from the Web.
-
-* 11/1/2003: Updated READ_ME and winboard/READ_ME.txt.
-
-* Modified xboard and winboard makefiles to be able to build the
-project in the new combined directory structure.
-
-* Applied a small security fix to pxboard, from Martin Maeok.
-
-* Fixed a bug in the game list dialog. The change in 4.2.6 to opening
-games in text mode (meant to avoid getting extra \r's into comments)
-caused a new bug in determining seek offsets when parsing a game file
-to form the game list. Also, the change was incomplete; on some code
-paths games were still being opened in binary mode. Thanks to Lenik
-Terenin for reporting the offset bug. I've now gone back to always
-using binary mode when reading game files, and I've fixed the comment
-bug by adding code to remove \r's from parsed comments explicitly. I
-still use text mode for writing game files so that games written by
-WinBoard will have Windows-style line endings.
-
-* Fix for minor bug in WinBoard installer. If you chose a non-default
-destination directory, the default directory was still used for a
-couple of unimportant things, namely setting the App Paths registry
-keys (unused by WinBoard) and trying to copy the existing WinBoard.ini
-file to WinBoard.old. I inherited this bug from the InstallShield 5
-sample template. Thanks to "l.d." for noticing the incorrect keys.
-
-* Patch from Chris Priest: when two engines are being run through rsh,
-avoid reusing the same stderr port for both. I'm not sure why this
-should be needed, but it's harmless, at least.
-
-* Bugfix: The kludge to deal with old engines that give an error
-message because they don't know the "st" command was too sloppy; it
-could hit on an "st" substring anywhere in an error message. GNU
-Chess 4 is the only engine I know of where the kludge was needed, so I
-changed the kludge to match a longer, more GNU-specific string.
-
-* Changed the WinBoard self-extracting installer to choose a unique
-temporary subdirectory name within the Windows temp directory instead
-of always putting wb-setup directly in temp. Besides being better
-practice, this avoids the need to deltree wb-setup first, which
-occasionally alarms someone who thinks that deltree is only used by
-trojans to delete all your files. (Yes, I'm serious.)
-
-* Fixed a bug where FICS-style "wild/0" strings were not parsed as the
-proper wild type. The "/" was not being skipped.
-
-* Fixed a WinBoard bug where temporary files created by game
-copy/paste were being created in the root directory of the current
-drive instead of the TMP directory and were not always deleted on exit.
-
-* Fixed a small bug in winboard.c's ErrorDialog() function. Thanks to
-"Ron" (no last name given). The bug might have caused a problem when
-pressing OK or Cancel in an error dialog when more than one error
-dialog was being displayed, but I'm not really sure.
-
-* Removed a hack that worked around a bug in very old versions of
-Crafty, where it would sometimes reply "illegal move" to a "."
-command. The hack kept us from recognizing real illegal move messages
-in analyze mode from engines that don't respond to the "." command.
-Thanks to Fabien Letouzey for the report.
-
-* Fixed a bug in the xboard version of GetDelayedEvent. It would
-return the most recently scheduled event even if it had already fired.
-This caused at least one visible error: in -ics -xreuse mode, starting
-the engine again and seeing another "feature done=1" would re-run the
-initialization code in InitBackEnd3, including the code that opens the
-connection to ICS. The WinBoard version didn't have this bug. Thanks
-to Bob Hyatt for the bug report.
-
-* The promotion popup for ICC wild 26 (giveaway) now includes King.
-Thanks to Fredrik Josefsson for the bug report.
-
-* The first game in a file (or being pasted from the clipboard) can
-now start with a bare move -- no PGN tags, no move number "1", etc.
-Suggested by Shane Harrelson. One could imagine taking this farther
-and accepting something like "e4 e5 1/2-1/2 d4 d5" as two games, but
-I haven't done that.
-
-* Bug fix: xboard didn't really accept a paste of multiple games,
-contrary to what I wrote when adding the feature to WinBoard in
-4.2.4. Now it works in both.
-
-* Fixed generic start/end of game messages to work on chess.net, where
-they put ratings in parens after the player names.
-
-* Updated config.sub and config.guess to newer versions from
-automake-1.4p5-2. This makes configure work with MacOS X + X11.
-
-* Bugfix: when examining a game fragment on FICS where black plays
-first, don't show two "(0:00.000)" times on the initial "none" move.
-
-* If TestLegality is on and one of the engines makes an illegal move
-in TwoMachines mode, it forfeits immediately. Formerly the game would
-get stuck at that point and the engine that made the illegal move
-would eventually lose on time.
-
-xboard/WinBoard 4.2.6 -- Fri Feb 1 22:26:31 PST 2002
-Tim Mann
-
-Another small bugfix release.
-
-* Put in a small change from Alexander Mai to allow xboard to build in
-an OS/2 EMX environment.
-
-* Fix WinBoard-only bug where editing a PGN file with comments would
-insert more \r characters before the \n after every Load/Save cycle.
-For some unknown reason we were reading the files in "rb" mode but
-writing them in "a" mode, so we kept the \r characters on reading and
-added an extra one on writing. Fix: change the "rb" to "r". Thanks
-to Joel (last name not given) for the bug report.
-
-* Put the arguments to rsh/remsh in the right order for better
-portability. Thanks to Michael Kalisz.
-
-* FreezeUI is now implemented in WinBoard; it was previously only
-implemented in xboard. This function prevents the user from entering
-moves or other commands while we are waiting for an engine to
-initialize itself. Implementing it fixes a bug where the user could
-start a game (etc.) during feature negotiation. One of the symptoms
-of this bug was that we could send "new" one or move moves *after* the
-first game started!
-
-* Fixed some handle leaks (WinBoard only), including a nasty one that
-leaked one handle per command sent to ICS. Thanks to several folks
-who helped characterize the bug and tried to look for leaks.
-
-* We now install and look for the info file in ${prefix}/share/info
-instead of ${prefix}/info. The latter is still the default in
-autoconf, but the former is currently used in Red Hat Linux and
-probably elsewhere.
-
-xboard/WinBoard 4.2.5 -- Sat Dec 15 11:42:51 PST 2001
-Tim Mann
-
-* Changed the bundled GNU Chess 5.02 in the WinBoard package to
-include a much smaller book and to use much less hash table space by
-default (8 MB transposition table, 0.5 MB pawn evaluation table). The
-large book included with 4.2.4 made the WinBoard download too big for
-some people, and the default hash tables were larger than the
-available physical memory on some people's computers. I built the
-small book by running Crafty's "small.zip" book line collection
-through a Perl script that makes it look enough like real PGN games
-that the GNU Chess book builder will accept it. The script and some
-minor patches to GNU Chess 5 are available in the WinBoard source
-distribution and at http://www.tim-mann.org/gnuchess.html.
-
-* Fixed a bug in the code that deals with engines that complain that
-"time" and "otim" are illegal moves. This was a new bug in 4.2.4.
-
-* Revamped the implementation of ToStart in analysis mode. Formerly
-there was some ill-conceived code that would try to get back to the
-start of the game by doing a "new" command (and all the followup
-commands that requires) while remaining in analysis mode. This is
-problematic for engine authors to support, though it works with
-Crafty. This code was trying to solve the problem of ToStart being
-slow because the engine would try to start an analysis after every
-"undo" command all the way back to the start. But ToEnd already had a
-much better solution to this problem, and now ToStart does the same
-thing: we exit from analysis mode and enter force mode instead,
-make/unmake moves to get to the end/start of the game, and then
-reenter analysis mode.
-
-* Formerly, Zippy could try to start playing a game before the engine
-was initialized; that is, during the initial timeout for protover 1
-engines, or before "feature done=1" for protover 2 engines. We now
-wait until the engine is initialized before connecting to ICS, which
-fixes this in the common case. If you turn off engine reuse for
-multiple games (that is, if you give the -xreuse option), there could
-still be problems; see item 503 in the ToDo file. Thanks to Dieter
-Buerssner for the bug report.
-
-* Bugfix: All WinBoard versions since the merge with WinBoard Plus
-(but not xboard) have had a bug in changing the PeriodicUpdates,
-PonderNextMove, and ShowThinking options from the menu. The bug
-mostly just caused changing these options during a game to not take
-effect until after the next reset. For TwoMachines games, though,
-changing PonderNextMove just before the game would take effect
-immediately for the second engine but not until the next game for the
-first engine. Thanks to Koundinya Veluri for the bug report.
-
-* Bugfix: In 4.2.4, we sometimes got confused when trying to leave and
-reenter analyze mode. One symptom was that Analyze File did not work.
-Thanks to Igor Syry for the bug report.
-
-xboard/WinBoard 4.2.4 -- Sun Dec 9 14:56:30 PST 2001
-Tim Mann
-
-* WinBoard now includes GNU Chess 5.02 in place of GNU Chess 5.00.
-
-* WinBoard's PasteGameFromClipboard will now handle a paste with
-multiple games in it, popping up the game list dialog. xboard
-already did this. Suggested by Robert Gerstman.
-
-* We now use the "clearboard" command on ICC where appropriate.
-
-* Bugfix: don't generate a bogus "variant normal" command to an engine
-for the loadable ICC wild types that we internally flag as
-VariantLoadable. Also clarified the message that Zippy sends when
-declining such wild games -- it can't deal with the possibility of
-loading an arbitrary position into the game. Thanks to Dieter
-Buerssner for reporting the problem. It would be nice to be able to
-actually play these wild types some day; presumably there would have
-to be an option to either send "loadgame" with a specified position,
-or to deal with an opponent sending it.
-
-* If we get a holdings message from ICS when we thought we were
-playing normal chess, we now try asking for a move list so that we can
-find out from the header what's really happening. Formerly we guessed
-bughouse in this case. Response to a comment from Gian-Carlo
-Pascutto.
-
-* Fixed two longstanding bugs in the clock code. These affected only
-play between a user and a local engine, or between two local engines,
-not ICS play. (1) The last fractional second used by a player before
-moving and virtually pushing his clock was being charged to his
-opponent instead of to him. (2) The time and otim commands were being
-sent to an engine before the (buggy) fractional second update was
-done. The second bug was pretty harmless in itself, but the first one
-was serious. Many thanks to Peter Rosendahl for carefully diagnosing
-and reporting these bugs!
-
-* Changed WinBoard timestamp key. Nothing is changed other than the
-key and a recompilation. ICC may phase out the old key soon; if they
-do, you'll need to use the timestamp.exe from WinBoard 4.2.4 or later
-to connect to chessclub.com.
-
-* Fixed an xboard-only bug where most dialogs would not take keyboard
-input unless the mouse was actually over the dialog, even if the
-dialog window had focus. Thanks to Jason Varsoke for the bug report.
-
-* Bugfix; Remember to send time and otim commands to engine before
-sending playother. Thanks to Bob Hyatt for the bug report. Also
-fixed a bug where time and otim were sometimes sent even with feature
-time=0.
-
-* Added small patches from Wilkin Ng that are meant to fix a crash in
-CopyGameToClipboard and a "can't unlock clipboard memory" error in
-PasteTextFromClipboard, under Windows 2000.
-
-* Changed cygwin.mak to not use -mno-cygwin. In other words, it now
-uses cygwin1.dll instead of the mingw libraries. This works around
-bugs in fileno() and stat() that I encountered in mingw. (fileno
-seems to always return 0. stat fails because the library routine uses
-a different definition of struct stat than the header files provide.)
-Thanks to Robert Gerstman for reporting the symptoms these bugs caused
-when WinBoard was compiled with Cygwin.
-
-* Added -showButtonBar option. This lets you delete the << < P > >>
-buttons and thus widen the message widget a bit.
-
-* Added code to address a very obscure bug. If an engine dies and
-needs to be restarted while in one of the analyze modes, it was not
-getting put back into analyze mode. This bug should not really ever
-have gotten tickled unless reuse was turned off and the engine sends
-game end commands (such as 1-0) when a game ends by rule while in
-analyze mode. The next version of the protocol spec will say that
-engines should not do that, but version 2 and earlier didn't address
-the issue.
-
-* We now use the FICS "iset ms 1" feature to get times in ms instead
-of seconds. Thanks to DAV for email telling me about this feature.
-
-* Changed clock display to show tenths of seconds for 9.9 seconds and
-less, instead of 0.9 seconds and less as before.
-
-* It has been discovered that Zippy can play simuls on ICC (but not on
-FICS). If you arrange for Zippy to send the ICC command "simulize" in
-the -zippyGameStart string, it will accept additional games while
-playing. Zippy will use the same engine for every game, so whenever
-it switches opponents, the engine's state will be reset with the "new"
-command. This will of course weaken its play, so don't enable simuls
-if you want your engine to have the highest possible rating. Zippy
-was never designed to work with simuls; it just works by accident, and
-it hasn't been tested much. So please report any bugs you notice, but
-don't expect them to be fixed rapidly. Thanks to Paul McGuire for
-noticing that this works.
-
-* Bugfix: Suppress the direct command to engine popup if there is no
-engine. In WinBoard this case used to cause a crash. Thanks to
-"Dargon" for the bug report.
-
-* Bugfix: formerly we did part of the engine initialization for the
-very first game too soon, before feature negotiation. One result of
-this is that engines would never get the "ics" command for the first
-game.
-
-* Lengthened timeout to detect protocol version 1 chess engines to 10
-seconds. This should reduce problems with protocol version 2 engines
-that are slow to initialize missing the timeout and not getting a
-chance to send their feature commands before the first game starts.
-
-* Klaus Friedel says that adding a short sleep to WinBoard after
-starting a new chess engine solves a problem that occurs under Windows
-2000, in which engines sometimes don't see the initial command(s) from
-WinBoard and hang. I don't understand how that can happen, but the
-sleep is harmless, so I've put it in. Others have also reported what
-may be the same problem, so hopefully this will fix it for them too.
-
-* Bugfix: editing the Result field in EditTags will no longer cause a
-later crash. Thanks to DAV for a clear bug report that let me
-reproduce the problem.
-
-* ICC wild 28 is now recognized as shatranj, but it is not supported.
-You might be able to play it by turning off Test Legality.
-
-* Formerly we would always turn off "feature time" if the engine
-printed an error message with the string "time" or "otim" in it; now
-we do that only if the message comes before the engine makes its first
-move. This change is useful because some engines spew a lot of bogus
-error messages about commands they don't fully parse, so something
-like "result 0-1 {White lost on time}" could generate such a message.
-Engines shouldn't do that, but if they do, mysteriously turning off
-"feature time" is not a good way to react.
-
-* Fixed an infrequently occurring Zippy bug: formerly, resuming from
-adjournment by position (that is, with GetMoveList turned off) or
-starting/resuming a wild game (nonstandard starting position) would
-try to set up the position without putting the engine into force mode
-first. That was probably tolerated by most engines, but if the
-position was black-to-play and the engine hadn't set feature
-setboard=1, then the fake "a2a3" move (which we use as a kludge to get
-black to be on move before sending the edit command) would appear to
-be a real move, and the engine might reply to it! This bug could also
-be seen when trying to use Zippy to play a simul -- something that
-Zippy was never designed to support, but which seems to mostly work
-anyway. Thanks to Paul McGuire for sending a WinBoard.debug file that
-showed the bug occurring. Some other cases of resuming adjournments
-or starting games from nonstandard positions may have been broken too;
-I think I've straightened out the problems.
-
-* Agreeing to a draw in the human vs. local engine case formerly did
-not work if the human offered first; now it does. A human's
-unsolicited offer is considered valid until he makes another move.
-Thanks to Bruce Moreland for the bug report.
-
-* Bugfix: We used to look for just "fr" in Event tags or strings from
-ICSes to recognize Fischer Random games. This caused a lot of false
-matches. Now we look for "wild/fr" instead, which is what FICS uses.
-
-* Bugfix: Clicking on a move in the MoveList window only updated the
-displayed position; if a chess engine was active, its state was not
-updated. Thanks to Alejandro Dubrovsky for the bug report.
-
-* Bugfix: The "resign" command from engine to xboard formerly did not
-work in ICS (Zippy) mode.
-
-* Bugfix: Formerly we would register a garbage premove if the user
-clicked on a piece, then clicked on an edge or outside the board. Now
-such an errant click is ignored.
-
-* Bugfix: GameEnds would send "exit" to an engine in analyze mode even
-if we did not actually want to leave analyze mode.
-
-* Bugfix: "feature pause" was being rejected. We don't currently use
-it, but that is no reason to reject it. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto
-for the bug report.
-
-* Bugfix: when "partner" needed to be sent both to ICS and the engine,
-Zippy was erroneously sending the ICS prefix character to the engine
-too. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto for the bug report.
-
-* Zippy now declines challenges when the engine is not yet ready to
-play again, instead of ignoring them. This is needed so that the
-server will let the opponent repeat the challenge. It might be better
-to remember such challenges and accept them when the engine is ready,
-but that would be a bit more complicated to implement.
-
-* Bugfix: Zippy's emotes didn't work on FICS because there, "i" is a
-built-in alias for "it", not a real command. So sending "$i foo" gave
-an error message instead of doing "it foo". We now leave out the
-alias-suppressing prefix for emotes.
-
-xboard/WinBoard 4.2.3 -- Mon Feb 19 19:55:05 PST 2001
-Tim Mann
-
-* Bugfix: The error message "Variant X not supported by gnuchessx"
-formerly could pop up even in -ncp mode.
-
-* Fixed an xboard bug in premove highlighting. If you had
-HighlightLastMove turned on, premoves got highlighted in
-highlightSquareColor (yellow) instead of premoveHighlightColor (red).
-
-* Modified premove again. Now we are back to displaying the move
-locally immediately after sending it to the server, as in versions
-prior to 4.2.1. This is good because it lets you register your next
-premove sooner. As a better fix to the problem that the change in
-4.2.1 had been trying to address, we now suppress animating the
-opponent's move if you have a premove reply pending. However, it's
-probably still a good idea for you to turn off AnimateMoves entirely
-if you are trying to play extremely fast games.
-
-* Removed an erroneous patch that left zombie chess engines around
-when both sigterm and reuse were turned off. (Bug was in xboard only,
-not winboard.)
-
-* Bugfix: loading a game with autostepping did not work for games with
-PGN result "*" (unfinished). This bug was introduced in 4.1.0, caused
-by some outdated code that was supposed to leave you in EditGame mode
-after loading an unfinished game. I fixed this, and also changed it
-to leave you in EditGame mode after loading *any* game, but without
-changing the tags to say it's an edited game. It's not really clear
-whether that is the best thing is to do here -- ideally, perhaps, the
-tags should change to say "edited game" if you actually make any
-changes, but that is harder to make work.
-
-xboard/WinBoard 4.2.2 -- Tue Feb 6 20:00:00 PST 2001
-Tim Mann
-
-* Fixed a problem introduced in 4.2.1. In -zippyPlay mode, 4.2.1
-started sending the initString immediately after the old game ended,
-but then when the next game started, it would still send "force" and
-another initString. Another problem was that the first initString put
-the engine out of sync with the displayed board position, though that
-might not usually have been noticeable. This is now changed to do a
-full Reset at the end of the previous game, and avoid doing a Reset at
-the start of a new game if we are still in BeginningOfGame mode.
-
-* Fixed some limitations in -zippyPlay mode. The engine was not being
-fed the moves or history of games that were displayed but not being
-played, so it would get confused if you tried to do something like
-examine a game, then enter EditGame mode from somewhere in the middle
-of the game.
-
-* Made a small change so that cygwin can compile xboard for Windows
-(an X server is required to run it). Thanks to Volker Zell. Most
-people would probably prefer to run WinBoard on Windows, however; note
-that cygwin could already compile WinBoard.
-
-* Added some missing documentation to engine-intf.html: It is okay to
-send "feature done=0" even before you receive the xboard and protover
-commands, if this is needed to give your engine enough time to
-initialize. See engine-intf.html for more discussion.
-
-* Bugfix: "feature done=0" did not work for the second engine; now it does.
-
-xboard/WinBoard 4.2.1 -- Sat Feb 3 19:52:26 PST 2001
-Tim Mann
-
-* Bugfix: in Zippy mode with feature san=1, the elapsed time was being
-sent to the engine after the SAN move; for example, "e4 (0:01)" was
-sent instead of just "e4".
-
-* It seems that scroll wheel mice with incompletely installed software
-(under Windows 95, at least) can send repeated middle button up events
-when the wheel is turned. Moved QuickPaste from middle button up to
-middle button down to avoid problems with this.
-
-* A premove is now sent *before* the opponent's move that it replies
-to is animated. The premove itself is no longer displayed (or
-animated) when sent; instead, it is displayed when the chess server
-echoes it back as a board update.
-
-* Bug fix: in -xreuse mode, xboard was only sending command line
-arguments to the engine the first time it was started. (WinBoard
-didn't have this bug.)
-
-* In -zippyPlay mode, we now initialize the chess engine for a new
-game immediately after the old game ends. (In -xreuse mode, this
-means starting a new engine process; in the default -reuse mode, it
-just means sending "new".) If the engine supports ping, we don't
-accept challenges until the "new" has finished. This should help
-avoid losing time (re)initializing the engine after the game starts.
-
-* We now handle the new FICS field in style 12 that says whether the
-clocks are ticking.
-
-* whiteFlag and blackFlag are now reset whenever an ICS board image
-arrives, giving autoflag a fresh chance to work.
-
-* Suppressed "geometry error" debug messages unless -debug flag is given.
-
-* Bugfix: avoid core dump on Solaris with -debug flag, caused by
-passing NULL to a %s format in GameEnds.
-
-* Added -firstProtocolVersion and -secondProtocolVersion. This will
-allow use of extremely broken engines that hang or die when given the
-"protover 2" command. It should be rarely if ever needed.
-
-* Zippy now strips highlights from player names in the Creating
-message; previously the ratings would not be extracted from this
-message properly if you had set the highlight variable.
-
-* Bug fix: Zippy with -zp but not -zt used to be fooled by false
-partner tells inside channel tells; e.g.:
-Garf(24): Garf (your partner) tells you: sit
-
-* Bug fix: when an engine reported its name with the new "feature
-myname=" command, we had been putting just that name into the window
-title even when in TwoMachines mode.
-
-* By default, WinBoard no longer uses the new feature introduced in
-4.2.0beta of keeping the ICS menu, ICS server list, and lists of chess
-engine command lines in separate files; instead, the lists are back in
-the winboard.ini file. This gets rid of some problems where the
-separate files could not be opened because the working directory was
-not set to WinBoard's installation directory.
-
-* WinBoard command lines and ini files now have another optional
-syntax for quoting an option value. All characters within { } curly
-braces are interpreted literally except for '}' itself. SaveSettings
-now uses this syntax for string values that contain a backslash or
-newline and do not contain a '}'. This should address the problem
-that the separate .ini files had been meant to fix; engine command
-line lists can now be written without \-escapes.
-
-* Fixed three bugs in relaying moves between engines in TwoMachines
-mode: an engine would be sent SAN if the *other* engine had set
-feature san=1, a relayed SAN move did not end with a newline, and
-feature usermove was not implemented for relayed moves.
-
-* Fixed several bugs in exiting: File/Exit would sometimes hang;
-timestamp/timeseal would not get killed off; an engine crash would
-cause error messages to be printed recursively until stack overflow.
-
-* Fixed a bug in the code to detect which ICS is in use and adapt to
-it; the chess.net case was broken.
-
-* Removed the leading alias-suppression character when sending a move
-to ICS, because it seemed to break accuclock on chess.net.
-
-* Fixed a bug where a FICS prompt like "10:01_fics%" would be matched
-as finger note number 10, causing a problem detecting when the user is
-logged in.
-
-* Added tellicsnoalias command to protocol.
-
-* Changed st command in protocol back to old behavior.
-
-* Added done=0 feature to protocol, to lengthen initial timeout.
-
-* Added missing -colorSeek command line option to xboard. (Was
-present in WinBoard.)
-
-* Bug fix: setting feature reuse=0 was not working.
-
-xboard/WinBoard 4.2.0beta -- Sat Dec 16 16:34:56 PST 2000
-Tim Mann
-
-* Setting -searchTime no longer turns off -clockMode. Note that when
--searchTime is set, some engines may search for the lesser of
-searchTime and the amount of time their normal clock management would
-dictate, while others will disable their normal clock management and
-always search for exactly searchTime.
-
-* Fixed WinBoard bug where on Windows 2000 (and maybe Windows 98) the
-ICS Interaction window would scroll back to the top whenever it filled
-to capacity and WinBoard trimmed some text off the top.
-
-* Changed xboard dragging so that the center of the dragged piece is
-forced to be over the mouse cursor. (WinBoard dragging already worked
-that way.) This should avoid confusing cases when you start a drag
-with the mouse near the edge of a square -- formerly most or all of
-the piece could be over one square but the mouse cursor over another.
-Suggested by DAV.
-
-* Added move list window for xboard. Code contributed by Manuel
-Hoelss and re-hacked a bit by me. Performance of this window is poor,
-because the implementation regenerates the entire window contents
-whenever anything changes. It's hard to avoid this when using the
-Athena List widget, though we could be a little smarter and notice
-when the current move number has changed but the move list has not.
-There are also several drawing problems caused by bugs in the Athena
-Form and List widgets. The window should not really allow a
-horizontal scroll bar, but the bugs are much worse if I turn it off.
-In both Xaw and Xaw3d, the List widget tries to resize itself when
-XawListChange is called, even if you tell it not to; and what's worse,
-if the widget cannot resize itself to be large enough to avoid
-clipping any of the list item, it does not change the list! Arrgh.
-On top of that, the Xaw Form widget is very buggy in XFree86 4.0.1
-(X11R6.4.3).
-
-* The OK button in the WinBoard startup dialog is now simply disabled
-if none of the radio buttons is selected, instead of bringing up an
-error dialog. Suggested by Ted Milbaugh.
-
-* Used ping to address the worst of the race conditions in the
-protocol. Now if an engine supports ping, we ping it after sending
-the "new" command and after trying to place it in force mode at the
-end of a game. When a ping has been sent and the corresponding pong
-has not yet come back, we (1) ignore or undo any moves the engine
-sends, (2) ignore game end messages (such as "offer draw", etc.) from
-the engine, (3) ignore thinking output from the engine, (4) delay
-starting the next game if in -matchGames mode, (5) in -zippyPlay mode,
-respond to challenges with a polite message to try again soon instead
-of accepting them. There are a few more things that should be done
-(and item 5 might not be quite what we want), but it's hard to fit
-them all into the existing code.
-
-* Patched the version of GNU Chess 5.00 included with WinBoard to
-support protover, feature, setboard, and ping, and to fix some minor
-bugs. See gnu500+.patch.
-
-* Changed the GNU Chess 4 kludges for missing "st" and "sd" commands
-to be invoked only if the engine gives an error message for "st" or
-"sd", and to always use protocol commands instead of engine
-command-line options. See "Idioms" in engine-intf.html.
-
-* Added new protocol command "protover 2" to tell the engine what
-version of the protocol is in use. Version 2 is still compatible with
-old engines; see engine-intf.html.
-
-* Add new protocol command "feature ..." The engine can send this in
-response to the protover command command, to say what extended
-protocol features it would like to enable, etc. xboard responds
-"accepted F" or "rejected F" for each feature F that is set. See
-engine-intf.html.
-
-* Added new protocol command "setboard <fen>". This is an alternative
-to "edit", used only if the engine says "feature setboard=1".
-
-* Added new protocol command "ping <msg>". The engine is supposed to
-respond "pong <msg>". This gives us a tool to fix some race
-conditions in the protocol, but it is not used to the fullest yet.
-
-* Added new protocol command "tellopponent". This will do a "say" if
-you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or pop up an information
-dialog otherwise.
-
-* Added new protocol command "tellall". This will do a "kibitz" if
-you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or pop up an information
-dialog otherwise.
-
-* Added new protocol command "tellothers". This will do a "whisper" if
-you're on a chess server in Zippy mode, or do nothing otherwise.
-
-* Changed the WinBoard /icsNames, /icsMenu, /firstChessProgramNames,
-and /secondChessProgramNames options to accept a filename preceded by
-"@", meaning to find the value in the file. Changed the defaults to
-use this feature, with filenames icsnames.ini, icsmenu.ini, fcp.ini,
-and scp.ini. This should make it easier for users to edit the values,
-since one less level of quoting is needed, and each value is in its
-own file, not mixed into winboard.ini. Those who upgrade from an
-older winboard version and already have a winboard.ini file will not
-automatically have these values moved to a file; that has to be done
-by hand if desired.
-
-* We now strip .exe from engine names for "name" command, tags, etc.
-
-* Allowed WinBoard input widget to hold more than one line. You can get
-a newline into the widget with copy/paste or with Ctrl+Enter.
-
-* Fixed an xboard bug where the [P] button would appear in the
-opposite highlight state from what it should be after being pressed.
-
-* We now use the "/" or "$" alias suppression feature on the chess
-servers, to avoid problems if the user inadvertently aliases a
-needed command to something else.
-
-* Changed the method used to deiconize xboard in AutoRaise and cmail.
-This may fix bugs under some window managers where after
-deiconization, the board window was mapped but nothing was drawn
-inside.
-
-* Preliminary, partial support for playing several chess variants
-against a local engine or editing variant games. The -variant option
-must be given on the command line or WinBoard startup dialog; there is
-no menu. The current variant is not displayed (except in the
-Tags/EditTags window). Many variants will not work quite right even
-if the engine supports them; see item 326 in the ToDo file for
-details.
-
-* Added a workaround to detect the variant type when examining a
-scratch wild game on an ICS.
-
-* Fixed two cases where "variant" command should be sent to the engine
-when necessary but was not: loading a game from a file and restarting
-a dead engine. Thanks to Gian-Carlo Pascutto.
-
-* Added missing support for FICS games that start from a bsetup position
-with Black moving first.
-
-* Fixed a bug in loading a file from the game list window while in
-Analysis or AnalyzeFile mode. This now leaves us in AnalyzeFile
-mode, analyzing the new file.
-
-* Fixed a bug in loading games with a comment before the first move.
-
-* Fixed a bug in handling LoadGame (or -lgf) with -td 0.
-
-* Added a command line option to select an initial minor mode from the
-Mode menu. This should satisfy requests from a couple of users with
-special applications.
-
-* Fixed a problem where some things in WinBoard's General Options
-dialog box were grayed out at the wrong time.
-
-* We look for a few messages from the chess engine pipe that are
-intended to catch problems starting an engine via rsh, such as "No
-such file". Moved code so that these strings won't match until other
-protocol messages have been looked for, and documented the messages in
-engine-intf.html.
-
-* Fixed the WinBoard bug that sometimes made the console input box
-white-on-white even when not in password-entry mode.
-
-* Small changes to WinBoard to be compilable with the latest Cygwin
-net release (as of 10-16-2000). Thanks to Mark Schoenberg.
-
-* Recompiled GNU Chess 5.0 for WinBoard with the latest Cygwin net
-release (as of 10-16-2000). Also rebuilt the book just to be sure,
-since I had one bug report about it. It came out identical and seems
-to work fine.
-
-* Added messages for some common InstallShield errors instead of just
-printing InstallShield's stupid error code numbers.
-
-* Added -firstComputerString and -secondComputerString, allowing you
-to suppress or change the command that is sent to a chess engine when
-its opponent is another computer.
-
-* Added "configure --with-Xaw3d" to allow use of Xaw3d widgets instead
-of Xaw widgets in xboard. Thanks to Johnny C. Lam of the NetBSD
-project. I've left Xaw as the default because Xaw3d is too ugly.
-
-* The version of the Xaw Form widget released in XFree86 4.0.1
-(X11R6.4.3) has a bug that causes xboard to display the button bar
-on top of the message widget. I've reported the bug and have
-installed a kludge workaround into xboard.
-
-xboard/WinBoard 4.1.0 -- Sun Sep 17 17:30:14 PDT 2000
-Tim Mann
-
-* Merged Winboard Plus 4.0.8 from Mark Williams into xboard
- source pool. Status of Winboard Plus features in xboard:
-
- - White pieces now have borders, but the implementation is
- completely different from WinBoard's; see below.
-
- - Options menu not changed, probably won't be.
-
- - Copy&paste support working, using Mark's changes to backend.c, Ben
- Nye's changes to xboard.c for FEN positions, and some code of my
- own in xboard.c for PGN games.
-
- - Premove hooked up and working. No pre-first-move, though.
-
- - ICS Alarm hooked up and working.
-
- - Auto-flip working.
-
- - PGN Training mode hooked up and working.
-
- - Improved menu item enable/disable working.
-
- - Improved >> button working.
-
- - Auto activate board working. I changed this to be optional; you
- might not always want it, especially in Zippy mode.
-
- - Blindfold working.
-
- - Documentation updated.
-
-* Fixed more colorization bugs. Commands like "message foo tells you:
-xxx" and "tell 33 tells you: xxx" will no longer generate bogus
-colorization.
-
-* Added low-tech sound support to xboard, by invoking an external
-program on a filename for each sound to be played.
-
-* ICC wild 27 is now recognized as VariantAtomic, and it sets the
-"ignore check" flag, but is not otherwise supported.
-
-* Converted the piece bitmaps from .bm to .xpm for use with xboard's
-xpm support. (An .xim version was not created.) Wrote a shell script
-using ImageMagick to do the conversion and to bucket fill from
-coordinate 0,0 with the background color. Used xpaint by hand to
-clean up a few pieces where background color "leaked" into the inside
-or didn't flow all the way around the outside, then a sed script to
-fix up color names and bitmap names in the xpaint output. If any more
-sizes are added later, they should be straightforward to convert with
-reference to the existing scripts. With this conversion, not only do
-the white pieces now have dark borders, but (unlike with WinBoard) the
-light details on the black pieces are opaque.
-
-* If the XPM library is found when building xboard, the new xpm pieces
-are compiled in as the default. External bitmap (or xpm) pieces can
-still be used by giving the -bitmapDirectory (or -xpmDirectory)
-option. If the XPM library is not found, the old bitmap pieces are
-the default. In this case external bitmap (or xim) pieces can be used
-by giving the -bitmapDirectory (or -xpmDirectory) option. There is no
-way to compile in xim pieces.
-
-Winboard Plus 4.0.8 -- Sat Aug 5 15:51 PDT 2000
-Mark Williams
-
-* Bugfix release.
-
-* Main menu now visible in Win NT. Thanks to Microsoft for creating a
-compiler which auto-mutilates the WinBoard.rc file so that the menu is
-displayed under Win 98 but not Win NT. I fixed the problem by hand editing the
-.rc file. Sigh.
-
-* "Reset game" now works properly when invoked from Analysis mode when two
-engines are present. Correction of bug introduced in Winboard Plus. Thanks to
-Mogens Larsen for reporting the bug.
-
-* Pasting a FEN position with Black to move now works in all modes.
-Thanks to Mogens Larsen for reporting the bug.
-
-* Added gnuchess.dat to the distribution and a couple of text files that were
-missing in 4.0.7.
-
-*** Merged in the following changes from Tim Mann:
-
-* Bugfix: Highlights would sometimes not be taken down, at least in
-xboard. The problem is that SetHighlight works in chess coordinates,
-not view coordinates, so if flipView has been toggled since the
-highlight was put up, it gets taken down from the wrong square. Fixed
-by being careful to call ClearHighlights before toggling flipView, not
-after. Ugh.
-
-* Bugfix: HighlightLastMove would sometimes highlight square a1 after
-a FICS "tomove black" command.
-
-* Bugfix: a move list with initial position that has black to play was
-not being handled correctly.
-
-* Removed "decline abort" and "decline adjourn" commands from Zippy.
-The syntax is changing on FICS, and Zippy really doesn't have to
-explicitly decline the requests anyway; it's sufficient to not accept
-them.
-
-* ICC wild 26 is now recognized as VariantSuicide (the FICS name; ICC
-calls it "giveaway").
-
-* Bugfix: PGN games with black to move in the initial position weren't
-being legality checked correctly. I think this was introduced in
-4.0.6 when I fixed a different PGN bug. Thanks to Mark Williams for
-spotting the bug and suggesting a fix.
-
-* Bugfix: the initial "name(" of a kibitz wasn't being colorized.
-
-Winboard Plus 4.0.7 -- Thu May 12 17:57 PDT 2000
-Mark Williams
-
-* New white pieces with black borders.
-
-* Major overhaul to Options menu. New dialogs for setting General Options,
- Board Options, ICS Options, Sounds, Fonts, Colors.
-
-* Clipboard support for PGN game scores and FEN positions.
-
-* Optional ICS Premove with user-specified first moves for White and Black.
-
-* New sound events: ICS Win, ICS Loss, ICS Draw, ICS Unfinished, ICS Alarm.
-
-* New auto-flip option when playing against a chess program.
-
-* Added PGN Training mode.
-
-* Certain menu options now disabled while program is thinking.
-
-* ">>" button now always goes to the end of the game.
-
-* In ICS mode, the board is automatically activated at the start of a
-new game.
-
-4.0.7 -- Sun Mar 5 17:17:49 PST 2000 Tim Mann
-
-* Fixed a nasty bug in parsing ICS game histories that was introduced
-in 4.0.6.
-
-4.0.6 -- Fri Mar 3 16:20:11 PST 2000 Tim Mann
-
-* Fixed bugs in Zippy's code for responding to messages sent with the
-ICS "message" command.
-
-* Fixed bugs where xboard could still create dialogs partially off the
-top of the screen. Fixed unwanted interactions between initial sizes
-and positions of various unrelated xboard dialogs. Deleted
-borderXoffset and borderYoffset resources.
-
-* Fixed restoring the xterm name on exit to work in more cases.
-
-* Small fix to the WinBoard self-extracting installer: when it starts
-up, it now always deletes any old wb-setup directory left over from a
-previous installation. Formerly this worked only on Windows 95/98, so
-on NT the self-extractor would sometimes stop and ask the user whether
-it was OK to overwrite the old wb-setup files.
-
-* Modified WinBoard to be compilable with the free Cygwin tools
-available from http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/. Based on work by
-Mark Schoenberg. (His mods were enough to get WinBoard through the
-compiler, but a few things were broken along the way, so I reworked them.)
-
-* Merged changes from Don Fong to make WinBoard compilable with
-Borland C++ 4.5. I do not have Borland C++ and am unable to test with
-it, but I did make sure the changes don't stop it working with MSVC++
-5.0 and Cygwin.
-
-* Forbade entering TwoMachines mode from MachineWhite or MachineBlack
-mode when machine is on move. This used to confuse the engine and
-cause problems, because when we try to get the engine to stop, it
-might make a move first, and it might not do that immediately.
-
-* Variant classification now deals with new ICC wild 25, classifying
-it as "3check". Also, we are now conservative about new wild numbers
-we don't know about, classifying them as "unknown" instead of
-"normal".
-
-* Replaced bad GNU Chess 5.00 book in WinBoard distribution with a
-correct one. 1.e4 now no longer takes GNU Chess 5.00 out of book!
-Thanks to Pete Galati.
-
-* Made move parser accept and ignore nonstandard ep suffix on PGN moves,
-e.g., "exf6ep" or "exf6e.p."
-
-* Fixed bugs in parsing PGN files starting with no move number, or
-with a move number other than "1." (including "1..."). Thanks to
-Michael Soulier and Stefan Zipproth for example PGN files
-demonstrating the bugs.
-
-* Changed InitComboStringsFromString to not modify the input string;
-this caused an exception when WinBoard was compiled with MSVC++ 6.
-Thanks to Bert Tuyt for the report.
-
-* In WinBoard, dragging a piece off the edge of the board without
-releasing the mouse button no longer instantly aborts the move. You
-still must release the mouse button inside a square to complete a
-move, but you can now drag off the edge and come back inside.
-
-* WinBoard bugfix: If you went into EditGame or EditPosition mode
-while observing or playing an ICS game, and a new move came in
-(snapping you back to ICSClient mode) while you were dragging a piece
-around, the drag state would not be reset, causing the piece you were
-dragging to remain on the board wherever you dropped it. Thanks to
-David Brinegar for the bug report.
-
-* WinBoard bugfix: If you moved or resized the board while your
-opponent was moving, and you had AnimateMoving on, his move would not
-be displayed until after your next move. Thanks to DAV for reporting
-the bug repeatedly until I finally understood it.
-
-* Added a Zippy "farewell" feature; see zippy.README.
-
-* Fixed a bug (xboard only) in processing -zippyReplayTimeout on the
-command line. Thanks to Steve Beer for the report and patch.
-
-* Send "computer" command to both sides in TwoMachines matches.
-
-* Fixed a Y2K bug in Evan's cmail code! Thanks to Brian Mays for the
-report and patch.
-
-* Bugfix: Initialize variant field of GameInfo struct in gameinfo.c.
-This could cause crashes in LoadGame. Thanks to Andrzej Nagorko.
-
-* Fixed several pattern matching problems: Finger notes and formula
-vars no longer get replied to by zippyTalk or colorized. Channel
-tells by players with many titles are now colorized fully, and
-zippyTalk handles channel tells by such players correctly. The shout
-"--> foo(99): bar" no longer gets colorized as a channel tell. Code
-is cleaned up a bit, and autocomment capture now uses the same
-criteria as colorization.
-
-* xboard fix: Enter key now closes error popups as in WinBoard.
-Especially nice for the "Exiting: Connection closed by ICS" popup.
-
-4.0.5 -- Tue Dec 7 10:30:40 PST 1999 Tim Mann
-
-* Added missing documentation of SIGTERM usage into engine-intf.html.
-
-* Bugfix: New -zippyReplayTimeout option was misspelled in WinBoard as
--zippyReplyTimeout. Thanks to Francesco Di Tolla.
-
-* xboard -ics now restores the xterm's original title upon exit, at
-least if $WINDOWID is set.
-
-* Bugfix: -matchGames mode wasn't terminating properly. Final score
-popup would come up twice and engines would not be killed off. Thanks
-to Frank Quisinsky for the bug report. Bug was introduced in 4.0.4.
-
-* Bugfix: "tell 50 foo shouts: bar" no longer gets colored as a shout;
-similarly for "...s-shouts:" and "...c-shouts:". Thanks to David Lee
-for the bug report.
-
-4.0.4 -- Fri Dec 3 17:51:27 PST 1999 Tim Mann
-
-* Bug fix: formerly if you invoked SaveGame from EditPosition mode
-with black to play, the position was not saved properly. As a quick
-fix, SaveGame now takes you out of EditPosition mode before saving.
-
-* Changed -matchGames to keep track of the score (won-lost-drawn) and
-display it in the banner. The final score is displayed in a modal
-popup before the program exits.
-
-* Changed "Connection closed by ICS" to display in a model popup
-before the program exits.
-
-* Added -popupExitMessage option, default on. Setting this to false
-suppresses the modal popups that you sometimes get just before
-xboard/winboard exits -- both the two new ones listed above and the
-existing Fatal Error popup. This is useful when running Zippy
-unattended from a shell script (or .bat file) that loops and starts a
-new copy after a time delay when there is an error.
-
-* In xboard, added missing support for WM_DELETE_WINDOW to all
-windows. This makes xboard a better citizen, and is much needed with
-the newer X window managers that put an [X] button on every window and
-bind it to "kill application" if the applicationd does not support
-"delete window". We can't allow xboard to be thoughtlessly killed,
-since that leaves the chess engine running in the background.
-
-* We now avoid positioning tops of xboard dialog boxes offscreen.
-
-* zippy.lines can now use the caret ('^') character as an inter-saying
-separator. You no longer need to dig up a text editor that can put NUL
-('\000') characters in text files.
-
-* Bugfix: In traditional chess clock mode, White now gets time added
-to its clock as soon as it makes time control. Previously both White
-and Black got their time added only when Black made time control,
-which would cause some engines to make their 41st move as White too
-quickly, thinking they were low on time.
-
-* The zippyAcceptOnly feature no longer sends a decline command or
-a tell. Thus you can use it to put Zippy into a manual accept mode.
-
-* Bugfix: "tell 50 foo tells you: bar" no longer gets colored as a
-personal tell; similarly for "...whispers:" and "...kibitzes:".
-
-* WinBoard no longer blanks the message line when you start a new
-move, unless there was an error message there from the previous move.
-
-* WinBoard now never puts the white piece drop menu on the middle
-mouse button. Both colors are always on the right button. Windows
-users often don't think to look for a middle button menu, or don't
-really have a working middle button despite what Windows says.
-
-* Guest login handles on ICC are now parsed again; an ICC wording
-change had broken this feature.
-
-* Autodetect when the engine does not support the "draw" command and
-don't relay the command to it in that case. Needed because sending an
-unsupported command to GNU Chess makes it move immediately, so people
-could make Zippy move without thinking by continually offering a draw.
-Thanks to Frank Walker for the problem report.
-
-* Small changes based on code from Robert Jurjevic: The WinBoard
-analysis window can be minimized (though not to the taskbar). The
-WinBoard ICS Interaction window will autoscroll if you drag the mouse
-above or below the window while selecting, and password entry mode
-leaves the entry line as the background color instead of using 75%
-gray. Seeks are now colorized with a new color of their own.
-
-* Added -zippyMaxGames feature.
-
-* -zippyNoplayCrafty command line option was missing in xboard; fixed.
-Thanks to John Perry.
-
-* Fixed bug in detecting when Zippy loses his bughouse partner.
-Thanks to Ben Dean-Kawamura.
-
-* allobs fix in 4.0.3 didn't work; corrected it.
-
-* WinBoard will now update the board immediately if a move is made
-while the window is being moved or resized.
-
-4.0.3 -- Sun Aug 15 18:44:39 PDT 1999 Tim Mann
-
-* Bugfix: moved winboard wizard functions that send a command directly
-to the chess engine from Ctrl+Alt+1 and Ctrl+Alt+2 to Alt+1 and Alt+2.
-Ctrl+Alt is equivalent to the European AltGr key, so the old assignments
-conflicted with typing an @-sign on some keyboards.
-
-* Bugfix: prevent "If this message stays up, your chess program does
-not support analysis" from appearing if AnalysisMode is selected when
-already in Analysis or AnalyzeFile mode. Also, deleting analysis window
-in WinBoard now switches you to EditGame mode, to avoid the anomaly of
-being in an analysis mode with no analysis window present.
-
-* Change all Zippy environment variables to work as command line
-options. For now they still work as environment variables too, but
-the environment variables are deprecated.
-
-* Use unsigned long to hold node counts from engines.
-
-* Print error instead of crashing on attempts to use xpm or xim pieces
-in monochrome mode. Thanks to Jim Torrance for the bug report.
-
-* Tightened pattern recognition for ICS messages sent to Zippy; should
-no longer match ICC allobs output. Fixed recognition of when Zippy is
-sent a message; small change to FICS output had broken it.
-
-* Zippy now exits if the engine dies unexpectedly.
-
-* Added Zippy "spoofedby" feature; see zippy.README.
-
-* Narrowed the margins on some older WinBoard dialogs to make their
-style uniform with the newer ones.
-
-* Bugfix: Changing Ponder Next Move from the Options menu did not take
-effect until the next game. This bug was in WinBoard only. Thanks to
-Stefan Zipproth for the bug report.
-
-* Got rid of "Internal error: bad move type" message when the engine
-makes a move that we can parse but think is illegal. Now the move is
-just passed on (which also may be the wrong thing to do).
-
-4.0.2 -- Thu Feb 25 19:55:32 PST 1999 Tim Mann
-
-* Added one more built-in sound choice to WinBoard: move.wav from Pete
-Galati.
-
-* Added new larger piece sizes: big, huge, giant, colossal, titanic.
-
-* Modified the xboard font searcher to be able to use scalable fonts.
-The new -fontSizeTolerance flag controls how closely a nonscalable
-font must match to be used in preference to a scalable font.
-
-* Zippy environment variables ZIPPYABORT and ZIPPYADJOURN now control
-whether Zippy will accept abort and adjourn requests.
-
-* We now determine the variant type being played on ICS, send it as a
-command "variant VARTYPE" to the chess engine (if in Zippy mode), and
-put it in the PGN tags. See engine-intf.txt for variant names. See
-ZIPPYVARIANTS in zippy.README to control what variants Zippy will
-accept. Note that this now applies to bughouse, too.
-
-* Zippy now won't do -zippyTalk in a channel unless his handle is
-mentioned there.
-
-* Zippy now ignores bughouse holdings if not actually playing, instead
-of stupidly trying to abort the game. Let me know if other strange
-things happen when Zippy is observing a game.
-
-* Set ICS Interaction title bar to "user@server". User name is
-determined by parsing message during the login sequence. Zippy now
-uses this method to get its name too, so ZIPPYNAME is eliminated.
-Problem: with xboard, the title bar gets set to "xterm" upon exit,
-since we didn't know what it was to start with.
-
-* Fixed xboard-only bug in -colorChannel1 command line option. Thanks
-to Fredrik Sandstrom for the bug report and fix.
-
-* Check for overflow of MAX_MOVES. Still not sure this is checked for
-everywhere it needs to be.
-
-* Added .epd to suffixes recognized by WinBoard as position files.
-This is a bit of a kludge, as the .fen reading code was not written
-with .epd files in mind, but reading them with it is said to work.
-
-* Added ZIPPYGAMESTART feature, suggested by Jason Hoblit. See
-zippy.README.
-
-* Restored the feature of soaking up the moves from a user-typed "moves",
-"oldmoves", or "smoves" ICS command when xboard/WinBoard is idle, but
-changed it so that the move list is also echoed to the screen. Some folks
-still liked the old feature since it is faster than examine mode, and
-printing the moves to the screen should eliminate the confusion it caused
-for other people.
-
-* Bugfix: in WinBoard, starting a click-click move and then clicking on
-a black line would cause the source square to be forgotten without taking
-the highlight down. Now the errant click is ignored.
-
-* Corrected shortcut key labels for LoadNext/PrevPosition in WinBoard's
-File menu. Thanks to Andreas Stabel for the bug report.
-
-* Bugfix: if you had a completely full ICS context menu in WinBoard
-(90 items), the last one would do nothing if selected.
-
-* The "computer" engine command added in 4.0.1 was not working; I had
-left out part of the code patch. Oops.
-
-4.0.1 -- Fri Feb 12 21:24:15 PST 1999 Tim Mann
-
-This is a minor bugfix release. The first item listed below is the
-only interesting new feature.
-
-* You can now type in moves from the keyboard in WinBoard. Either
-select TypeInMove from Step menu, or (if you are not in ICS mode),
-just start typing. In ICS mode you can type moves into the ICS
-interaction window anyway, so I've retained the feature that typing
-switches you there. Not implemented in xboard.
-
-* Removed the "noise 1000" command that used to be sent to the chess
-engine when entering analysis modes.
-
-* Deleted the feature where we soak up the output of a user-typed ICS
-"moves" or "oldmoves" command. This ancient feature is not really
-useful anymore, now that "examine" exists, and it caused a lot of
-complaints.
-
-* Increased maximum size of ICS text menu to 90 entries and added
-overflow checking.
-
-* The command sent to ICS by Zippy at the end of each game can now be
-customized with the ZIPPYGAMEEND environment variable.
-
-* We treat xboard.info as a pseudo-source since most people don't have
-the tools to rebuild it. But "make install" erroneously had a
-dependency on it, even though "make all" did not. Fixed.
-
-* Miscellaneous minor updates and clarifications to engine-intf.txt.
-In particular, documented the st and sd commands (support for command
-line options -searchTime and -searchDepth), warts and all.
-
-* Added a small code patch from Bob Hyatt to detect when Zippy's ICS
-opponent is a computer and send the command "computer" to the engine.
-Added this command to engine-intf.txt. Thanks, Bob.
-
-* Bugfix: configure was looking for usleep(), but config.h.in didn't
-have an entry for it, so HAVE_USLEEP was never defined. Also, in the
-non-HAVE_USLEEP case, there was a possible race condition between the
-signal handler and the pause() call. Thanks to Ben Dean-Kawamura for
-the bug reports.
-
-* Bugfix: a "1..." preceding Black's first move (usually present if
-there is a comment on White's first move) would cause the parser
-to think a new game started there and report "End of game" on the
-current game. Thanks to Dell Garner for the bug report.
-
-* Changed the abbreviation for -searchDepth from -sd to -depth to fix
-a clash with -secondDirectory.
-
-* Changed -searchDepth to be orthogonal to the various timing options.
-Previously it would search for an unlimited time to the given depth;
-now the engine is allowed to choose its search time in the normal way,
-but is told to cut off the search early if it reaches the given depth.
-
-* Bugfix: SaveSettings in WinBoard was saving both the long form
-option highlightSquareColor and its abbreviation (hsc).
-
-* Fixed a redisplay bug in DisplayBothClocks that could cause White's
-clock to be highlighted in EditPosition mode when Black's should have been.
-
-* Fixed Zippy's feature of passing on draw offers from the ICS opponent.
-The colorization code was eating the offer before Zippy saw it, so I disabled
-colorization of offers while in -zp or -zt mode. (Other types of
-colorization are already disabled in Zippy mode for similar reasons.)
-
-* Added some more commands to the default ICS context menu in WinBoard,
-and put "(name)" on the ones that insert a playername (or game number).
-
-* Added missing documentation to WinBoard help file: PonderNextMove, the
--ponder/-xponder argument, and the up/down arrow history feature in the
-ICS Interaction window.
-
-* Fixed ZIPPYNOPLAYCRAFTY feature to fire only if the opponent is Crafty,
-not if some other Crafty is observing the game and kibitzes.
-
-* Fixed bugs in generating "partner" commands when Zippy is playing
-bughouse.
-
-4.0.0 -- Sat Jun 20 16:59:47 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
-
-* Fixed WinBoard resizing so that the edges you do not drag remain in
-place, even when the final size is different from what you dragged to.
-(This doesn't work on NT 3.51 or earlier, if anyone cares.)
-
-* Fixed problems with resizing WinBoard on Windows NT: you no longer get
-whitespace around the board, a clipped board, or a lot of flashing during
-the drag.
-
-* Added customization for highlight-square color.
-
-* Bugfix: backend.c wrote to stderr in a few obscure places, which doesn't
-work in WinBoard.
-
-* Added Index Number field back to LoadGame/LoadPosition dialog boxes in
-WinBoard. This required some extra code to work with both the
-Explorer-style dialog boxes and the old-style NT 3.51 dialog boxes. Ugh.
-
-* WinBoard startup dialog now understands -zp mode. The first chess
-engine selector is enabled and the value is used.
-
-* Bugfix: ResetGame would send "exit" to engine twice if it was in an
-analysis mode.
-
-* Bugfix: The response "Illegal move: bk" to the "bk" command, indicating
-that it is not implemented, would confuse xboard.
-
-* Bugfix: Ignore empty hints ("Hint:\n") instead of printing a message
-saying that some bogus string (often "Hint:") is illegal.
-
-* Bugfix: LoadNextGame/LoadPreviousGame/ReloadSameGame were broken.
-
-3.6.12 -- Sat Jun 13 14:57:10 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
-
-Beta test release of xboard and WinBoard.
-
-* Spruced up xboard man page a bit.
-
-* Added Highlight Last Move to xboard too.
-
-* The revamped xboard mouse click code had several more bugs than the
-previous version, so I revamped it again. All fixed now, I hope.
-
-* xboard bugfix: crash in CreatePieceMenu.
-
-* Oops. winboard-3_6_11beta.exe installed 3.6.10beta, not the new version.
-
-3.6.11 -- Fri Jun 12 20:00:48 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
-
-Beta test release of xboard and WinBoard.
-
-* Major reorganization to engine-intf.txt. Some new features added,
-many existing features clarified and hints for engine programmers added.
-Support for new features added to program.
-
-* Changed defaults for -scp (etc.) back to being independent of -fcp, as
-in 3.6.2. That is, the default is no longer to copy the value from -fcp if
--scp is not specified. This will sometimes make command lines longer but
-will remove some confusing situations.
-
-* Split -reuseChessPrograms into two options: -reuseFirst and
--reuseSecond. Fixed obscure bugs when reuse is off.
-
-* Detect ICC and change some command usage slightly there: only ICC has
-set-quietly; only FICS has iset and bsetup clear. With this feature, we
-can now safely use bsetup clear when appropriate instead of deleting each
-piece one by one.
-
-* Added indent to lines that are wrapped by WinBoard ICS Interaction
-window. This seems to tickle a Microsoft bug in the RichEdit control:
-occasionally the start of the next line after the wrapped line is indented
-too. I think the wrapped indent feature is useful enough that it's worth
-having in spite of the bug.
-
-* WinBoard bugfix: bounding box for the board was computed incorrectly by
-mouse code. It would think you moved off the bottom of the board before
-you really did, so it was hard to drag pieces along the bottom rank on
-smaller board sizes.
-
-* Fixed obscure parser.l bug: ambiguity between capture using : instead of
-x and email header line. Also removed or simplified a lot of complex
-patterns for English (as opposed to PGN) end-of-game indications while I
-was in there.
-
-* Added PonderNextMove option.
-
-* xboard EditPosition piece menus now let you set the side to play by
-selecting the "White" or "Black" label at the top of the menu, like
-WinBoard. (Both xboard and WinBoard still let you set the side to play by
-clicking on the clock.)
-
-* Merged documentation of Crafty and GNU Chess thinking output in
-engine-intf.txt. Corrected code in backend.c to match documentation; it
-used to require the PV to start in column 27 (!).
-
-* Fixed bug that caused crashes in "-reuseChessProgram false" mode.
-
-* Draw by agreement in Two Machines mode now works as it is supposed to.
-Other minor bugs in handling game end messages from machines are also
-fixed, and engine-intf.txt is revised in this area.
-
-* Revamped xboard code for handling mouse clicks on the board. In
-particular, it had a bug if a click-click promotion move was made.
-
-* Fixed and reinstated optimization for << in analysis modes: send
-initString and re-send the board if needed. Sending repeated undos
-is bad because Crafty prints some analysis after every one.
-
-* Don't go into a spin loop while pausing between xboard animation frames.
-This caused problems, especially when compiling with -O2 on HP-UX.
-
-* WinBoard Options/Colors/RevertToDefaults now also turns off Monochrome
-if it was on, and similarly for Options/ICSInteractionColors/RevertToDefaults.
-This seemed to confuse people before.
-
-* Bugfix: ICS Interaction context menu items with neither of the two
-optional flags set did not work.
-
-* Bugfix: PGN move numbers are optional, but we were insisting on "1"
-right after the tags.
-
-* Bugfix: only the first game of an -mg match was loading -lpf or -lgf.
-
-* Other minor fixes and code cleanup.
-
-3.6.10 -- Mon Jun 1 01:32:31 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
-
-* Added ZIPPYNOPLAYCRAFTY feature; see zippy.README.
-
-* Added timestamps for chess engine interaction to -debug output.
-
-* Now allow 10 seconds (was 5) between games in match mode for engines to
-respond to "force" command that ended previous game.
-
-* When a game is picked from the game list and the names of White and
-Black are known, display them in the window banner instead of the filename
-and game number.
-
-* Changed default for -scp and -sd to be the values of -fcp and -fd.
-
-* Added boxes for both engines to WinBoard startup dialog. Changed to
-dropdown boxes whose content can be set from winboard.ini, similar to
-the box for ICS name.
-
-* Accept "offer draw" (or "*offer*draw*") from engine to offer a draw.
-
-* Accept "move mmmm" from engine as well as silly "1. ... mmmm" syntax.
-
-* Added support for bughouse engines (Zippy mode only).
-
-* Move bombproofing for engines sending illegal or out of turn moves.
-
-* Always send "xboard\n" to engine as first command. Eliminates need
-to run crafty as "crafty xboard".
-
-* Rewrote xboard code for input from engines to fix longstanding bugs.
-Previously an engine that sent one line in two separate writes with
-some time lapse in between (or perhaps that sent several lines in one
-write) could make xboard hang. WinBoard did not have this bug.
-
-* Fixed minor bugs in dealing with illegal moves.
-
-* Added "iset startpos 1" for FICS.
-
-* Removed special support to put "GNU Chess" or "Crafty" in the window
-banner instead of the engine's base filename. This gives a more level
-playing field for other engines. Also fixed bugs in the code that finds the
-engine's base filename.
-
-* Bugfix: Abort or Resign at the very start of a game in chess engine mode
-would fail to send "force" to the engine.
-
-* Fixed some minor bugs in new "result" messages, and changed format to
-include a trailing PGN comment giving the reason the game ended.
-
-* Changed syntax of /font options in WinBoard; old syntax was assuming
-that a font name can't contain a digit, which is wrong. Old font names in
-WinBoard.ini files are still accepted.
-
-* Serious further work on getting WinBoard to read/write files in the
-"right" directories and documenting exactly what it does.
-
-* Added LoadPreviousPosition, LoadNextPosition, ReloadSamePosition.
-
-* Misc. tiny fixes and cleanup.
-
-3.6.9 -- Sun May 24 20:53:08 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
-
-xboard and WinBoard beta release.
-
-* Tightened up illegal move handling. Illegal or meaningless moves from a
-file or chess engine should no longer get translated into a1a1 and blindly
-applied. Explicit moves to the same square (like a1a1) no longer make the
-piece on that square capture itself and vanish.
-
-* Added AlwaysOnTop feature to winboard.
-
-* Fixed bug in winboard "@" command line indirection operator.
-
-* Removed buggy "optimization" code for ToStart in analysis modes.
-
-* Fixed typo bug in zippy.c that would often cause winboard to crash
-right after starting a game in -zp mode.
-
-3.6.8 -- Sat May 23 22:23:19 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
-
-xboard and WinBoard beta release.
-
-* Added -firstDirectory and -secondDirectory so that chess engines can
-be started in a different directory from xboard/WinBoard itself.
-
-* Added -matchGames to allow more than one game in -matchMode. The games
-are played with colors alternating between the two chess engines. Had to
-add a time delay at the end of each game to catch up with game ending
-messages from both chess engines -- yuck.
-
-* Changed TwoMachines mode to have firstChessProgram play White by
-default. Added -firstPlaysBlack to restore old behavior.
-
-* Major rework of code in backend.c for dealing with first and second
-chess engines. Generalized the code and created a struct type with one
-instance for each engine. Several small bugs fixed along the way.
-
-* Fixed bugs in Abort in local chess engine mode.
-
-* Tightened pattern matching to recognize moves from machine. Should cure
-bogus "Illegal move" errors while Crafty is pondering with Show Thinking
-on, among other things.
-
-* WinBoard keeps focus in board window after popping up a comment due to
-Forward/Backward/ToStart/ToEnd commands.
-
-* Finally got rid of warnings on compiling moves.c under Windows.
-
-* Fixed so WinBoard will compile on machines where WM_MOUSELEAVE is not
-defined.
-
-* Removed various bits of unused code.
-
-* Parse (and ignore) NAGs in PGN files.
-
-* Updated engine-intf.txt.
-
-* Send "result R" to the chess program at the end of each game, where
-R is the PGN result 1-0, 0-1, 1/2-1/2, or *.
-
-* Bugfix: suppress animation when loading a game with timeDelay=0.
-
-* Bug fix: pondering output from Crafty that contained "..." could be
-mistaken for a move, causing bogus error messages and general chaos.
-
-* xboard "make clean" bug fix: moved things created by configure to be
-removed only by "make distclean".
-
-* Fixed a remaining case where move was being animated before being
-relayed to opponent.
-
-* Backend was reversing time/otim commands to the chess program (new bug),
-and was often not sending them on the first move of a game or the first
-move after a mode change (old bug). Fixing the latter required a kludge
-to work with both GNU Chess and Crafty, because Crafty swaps white and
-black clock times when it swaps sides, while GNU Chess does not. The
-kludge is that we always make sure the chess engine thinks its opponent is
-on move before we set the clock. This will sometimes result in sequences
-like "white\ntime xxx\notim yyy\nblack\ngo", or the same with white and
-black interchanged.
-
-* Removed last trace of old -whiteString and -blackString arguments.
-
-* Fixed so that you can type "bd" into the Direct Command dialog when
-debugging gnuchess, without having xboard parse the clock display
-(starting with "White") as "White wins" and end the game.
-
-* Changed moves.c to make a distinction between IllegalMove (where we
-could tell what move was intended, but it violates the chess rules) and
-MeaninglessMove (where we could not tell). This is a step towards getting
-rid of cases where we translate meaningless moves into "a1a1", but some
-work is probably needed to track them all down.
-
-* Fixed bug in WinBoard monoMode dragging.
-
-* Changed WinBoard to new style file dialogs. In the process, disabled
-the feature that let you enter the index number of a game or position within
-the file in the dialog. This is no loss in LoadGame, as you can pick your
-game from the game list dialog that follows, but it does remove some
-functionality from LoadPosition.
-
-3.6.7 -- Mon May 18 21:25:00 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
-
-xboard and WinBoard beta test release. I've been unable to reproduce some
-reported drawing bugs, so they may still not be fixed.
-
-* Changed PopUpErrors option to PopupMoveErrors, which is more useful, and
-changed default to off. Errors other than move errors should always be in
-popups; they are often too big for the message area and too important to
-put where they can be easily missed. But it seems good to get rid of the
-popups for move errors by default.
-
-* xboard analysis window no longer forces itself to top whenever there is
-new output. Also, now uses built-in Xaw word wrapping instead of trying
-to do its own; works better.
-
-* Bugfix: Reset did not take Crafty out of analyze mode.
-
-* A chess engine no longer has to claim to be Crafty to be able to use
-AnalysisMode and AnalyzeFile; it just has to implement the analyze
-command as Crafty does. Put in heuristics to generate more informative
-error messages if the engine does not support analyze, and checked that
-they work at least with GNU Chess.
-
-* Added click-click moving, HighlightLastMove, and HighlightDragging to
-WinBoard. The highlight features are unlikely to go into xboard unless
-the xboard drawing code is cleaned up to do *all* drawing on the board
-from DrawPosition, as WinBoard does. This is low priority for me.
-
-* Eliminated bogus "Error gathering move list: no header" popup. You
-could get this by observing two fast games at once without turning off
-GetMoveList.
-
-* Disable WinBoard Sounds menu entirely in -ncp mode, since not even
-MoveSound is used in that mode.
-
-* WinBoard bugfix: Several problems were caused if the user changed
-WinBoard's current directory in a Load, Save, or Browse dialog. In
-particular, WinBoard.ini would get saved in the wrong directory, and
-sound .wav file names would not get saved with a full pathname. I think
-all such problems are now fixed.
-
-* WinBoard bugfix: iconizing the board after an aborted mouse resize would
-(partially) resize it to Tiny.
-
-* WinBoard bugfix: board was not being drawn in color on 256-color
-displays. This bug was introduced in 3.6.6.
-
-3.6.6 -- Tue May 12 17:43:43 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
-
-xboard and WinBoard beta release. Note: not all reported bugs are fixed.
-
-* Move animation in WinBoard, programmed by Henrik Gram. Great stuff!
-
-* Animate backward moves too.
-
-* xboard bugfix: -font (and friends) can now specify a font alias (such
-as "fixed"), not just a full X Consortium name pattern. Previously this
-would give a resource conversion error message.
-
-* Some coding style cleanup in xboard.c.
-
-* Earlier error check for moving wrong color piece in EditGame mode.
-
-* Completed fix to pattern matching; see 3.6.5.
-
-* Fixed some software rot bugs in Zippy.
-
-* Split AnimateDragging as separate option from AnimateMoves.
-
-* Added FlashMoves to options menu and -flash/-xflash to command line
-options (xboard only).
-
-* Some preliminary work on visible bughouse holding support. Most of the
-code is not present in this release because I have not gotten it working
-properly yet; my first approach went down a blind alley and I had to
-remove most of the partially working code in preparation for a rewrite.
-
-3.6.5 -- Fri May 8 14:22:09 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
-
-Not generally released.
-
-* Pack bughouse holdings display in banner more tightly when board is one
-of the smaller sizes (when smallLayout or tinyLayout is true, that is).
-An interim measure, but should help.
-
-* Completed fix to make move list parsing recognize the end condition and
-final comment.
-
-* Fixed pattern matching for chatter (tells, etc.) to be more reliable.
-This should reduce the incidence of colors starting in the wrong place and
-of incorrectly matching things that look like other patterns inside
-chatter, such as "shout <12>". (These errors were already rare.)
-
-* WinBoard now lets you customize the list of ICS's in the startup dialog.
-For now, at least, requires editing WinBoard.ini with a text editor.
-
-* Bug fix: WinBoard window sizing and position setting save/restore did
-not work right when the taskbar was at the top (or left side) of the
-screen and not in autohide mode.
-
-* Merged xboard click/click mode and drag mode, and deleted
-ClickClickMoving option on menu. Now if you click on a piece, it
-highlights and a further click on another square will move it. (A second
-click on the same square takes down the highlight.) Or if you press down
-on a piece and start to drag, you can drag it to a new square.
-
-* When making click/click style moves, if your second click is on a piece
-of the same color, instead of saying "Illegal move", we now cancel the first
-starting square, replace it with the second, and wait for another click to
-finish the move.
-
-* Separate -secondInitString. Default: same as -initString. Suggested by
-Remi Coulom.
-
-* Patch from Frank McIngvale to make animation work with XIMs. Yay!
-
-* Changed move animation to happen after move is passed on to ICS or the
-chess engine, where applicable. Fixed problems with updating moveList
-that this uncovered.
-
-* Changed game list to show PGN result token for each game.
-
-* The usual minor bug fixes.
-
-3.6.4 -- Thu Apr 30 23:14:43 PDT 1998 Tim Mann
-
-xboard and WinBoard beta test release.
-
-* xboard documentation updated, both man page and info file. An attempt
-to generate both from the same source with LinuxDocSGML was abandoned, at
-least for now. WinBoard doc updated too.
-
-* Merged updates to animation code from Hugh. Fixed a couple of remaining
-bugs, mostly to do with handling Pause mode correctly.
-
-* Added SaveSettingsOnExit to WinBoard.
-
-* WinBoard now saves the last screen position of the Comment, Edit Tags,
-Game List, and Analysis windows (in addition to the board and ICS
-Interaction windows) in WinBoard.ini.
-
-* WinBoard now provides a way to customize the right-button context menu
-in the output area of the ICS Interaction window. For now, requires
-editing WinBoard.ini with a text editor.
-
-* Various minor fixes to ICS message recognition, most affecting only Zippy.
-
-* Colorize the notification when someone sends you a message while you are
-logged in, not the output of the "messages" command.
-
-* Fixed colorization to turn off at the right place more reliably.
-
-* Added a new color and WinBoard sound for "requests": abort, adjourn,
-draw, pause, and takeback. The same color and sound are used for all of
-these.
-
-* Added GUI to change sounds in WinBoard.
-
-* Suppressed WinBoard error popup when a sound can't be played. They were
-popping up when two separate WinBoards tried to play a sound at the same
-time (such as during a bughouse match).
-
-* Fixed WinBoard crash when a sound file didn't exist.
-
-* WinBoard ports of timestamp and timeseal now produce decent error
-messages if they fail to connect, and WinBoard captures the messages and
-puts them into a popup. Previously WinBoard would exit with no message on
-such errors.
-
-* WinBoard resizing with mouse improved; now accurately picks the largest
-size that fits in the new area.
-
-* Added option to turn off error message popups.
-
-* Added sizes slim, dinky, and teeny.
-
-* Fixed some minor problems with error message wording.
-
-3.6.3 -- Mon Feb 23 19:08:57 PST 1998 Tim Mann
-
-xboard beta test release only. Man page is updated for the changes, but info
-file is not.
-
-* Bug fix: LoadGame could not load a PGN game whose first move was
-castling (which is possible from setup positions).
-
-* Bug fix: we were ignoring illegal move messages from chess engines in
-modes where the engine is refereeing but not participating (EditGame,
-LoadGame, AnalyzeFile). The problem was in a workaround for a Crafty bug,
-where Crafty generates a bogus illegal move message if a "." (used by
-the PeriodicUpdates feature) is sent in analysis mode when the current
-analysis reveals a forced mate. Installed a different workaround (that
-works in most but not all cases) and reported the Crafty bug. Bob Hyatt
-replied with a fix, so the Crafty bug should be gone in Crafty 14.12 or so.
-
-* WinBoard only: enabled resizing board with the mouse. It snaps to the
-nearest (but not too much larger) predefined size.
-
-* The xboard default font is now sized according to piece size, just as
-clockFont and coordFont have always been.
-
-* Added more sizes: bulky, moderate, average, middling, mediocre, petite.
-
-* xboard only: Added Animate Moves and Click-Click Moving to Options menu.
-
-* xboard only: Added code to animate piece movement, from Hugh Fisher.
-
-* New feature: autoflag is implemented in MachineWhite, MachineBlack, and
-TwoMachines modes. If it is on and either a chess program or the user
-oversteps his time, xboard will automatically call the flag and end the
-game. This feature was requested by someone who runs matches between
-programs and wants to penalize GNU Chess for its habit of running slightly
-over at the end of a time control. I personally think it's pointless.
-
-* Fixed a bug in Zippy's pattern matching; he can now reply to ICC
-messages again.
-
-* Generate prettier notation for illegal moves. If a move is illegal only
-because it leaves the player in check, generate notation as if that were
-not illegal. For instance, if two knights are a knight's move away from
-f3, one on g1 and one on e5 that is pinned, the notation would be Nf3 to
-move the g1 knight, Nef3 to move the e5 knight. (Suggested by Philippe
-Schnoebelen.) In addition, if a move is illegal because the type of piece
-moved cannot go that way, would be jumping over another piece, etc., we
-give fully disambiguated coordinate notation; for example, Ng1g3, Ke1xe8,
-d2xd8=Q, etc. An alternative would be to still write Ng3 if there is only
-one knight on the board, or Ngg3 if the other knight is not on the g file,
-but life is too short to code up all this stuff, and perhaps the way I did
-it is better as it emphasizes that this move was really made despite being
-illegal. I wonder if the new PGN standard revision will speak to notation
-of illegal moves?
-
-* Fixed gross bug from 3.6.2: if a chess program said "checkmate" and
-White was left on move, the PGN outcome was "1-0 {Black mates}" instead
-of "0-1 {Black mates}"! The bug occurred only for that specific string.
-
-3.6.2 -- Wed Jul 23 16:47:29 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
-
-* There was a bug in backing up from the end of a game against a chess
-engine, introduced when -reuse mode was added. Fixed.
-
-* Recognize "{" as terminating an ICS move list. Previously we needed to
-see a prompt (containing %), but occasionally ICC can send more stuff
-right after a move list with no prompt in between.
-
-* In WinBoard, -mm now implies -cp, so you don't get the startup dialog.
-
-* WinBoard startup dialog no longer sets -scp. People used to get
-confused because they would give the -fcp and -scp arguments, but omit
--cp. This would bring up the startup dialog, which would set both -fcp
-and -scp to the value in the engine name box. Now you can change -scp
-only with the command-line argument. That will confuse some people too,
-but hopefully fewer. I think overall it's better than putting spaces for
-both -fcp and -scp in the dialog, which would puzzle newbies.
-
-* Bug fix: Analyze File mode now works in WinBoard.
-
-* Bug fix: WinBoard window no longer cuts off part of the bottom row if
-the menu bar wraps to a second line.
-
-* Accept game end messages of the form "PGN-result {comment}" from the
-chess engine, where PGN-result is 0-1, 1-0, or 1/2-1/2. Accept "resign"
-or "computer resigns" from the chess engine as a synonym for "0-1 {White
-resigns}" or "1-0 {Black resigns}". Accept any message from the chess
-engine containing "game is a draw" as a synonym for "1/2-1/2 {Draw}".
-Accept "White resigns" or "Black resigns".
-
-* Enable "Action / Draw" menu item in chess engine mode. It sends the
-command "draw" to the engine. Accept any message from the chess engine
-containing "offers a draw" as a draw offer. WARNING: Draw offers from the
-user and the engine (or from two engines) are not yet matched up by xboard
-in chess engine mode. Two engines could get into a loop offering each
-other draws.
-
-* Bug fix: Game end messages from the chess engine are always ignored in
-Zippy mode. Previously they could sometimes be processed, which was
-sometimes making Zippy hang at the start of a new game that followed
-quickly after an old one.
-
-* Zippy can now respond to titled players in channels. Zippy will avoid
-talking to himself in a channel if he knows his own name.
-
-* Bug fix: in colorization arguments, the bold setting was being ignored
-if the background color was defaulted. (xboard only.)
-
-* Extended ParseFEN to accept Crafty 12.2's interpretation of FEN.
-If fewer than 8 squares are given in a row, or fewer than 8 rows are
-given, the uncovered squares are empty. Also, there can be a / after the
-8th row.
-
-3.6.1 -- Sat May 17 01:02:33 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
-
-* Bug fix: Hitting escape while entering a password on WinBoard no longer
-sets the font color back to black (which made further typing visible).
-
-* Bug fix: On Windows NT 4.0, WinBoard /ics /icshelper=timestamp would
-often hang if you tried to exit with the Exit menu item, the [X] button,
-etc. The same fix may also have corrected the problem where running a
-chess program with /xreuse would sometimes crash Windows 95 (but not NT)
-when the chess program was killed and quickly restarted.
-
-* Bug fix: Periodic Updates would not work if turned on after having been
-off. Also, the default was needlessly "off" in WinBoard.
-
-* Zippy bug fix: Continuing an adjourned game was totally broken. The
-wrong moves, or no moves at all, were being fed to the chess program.
-
-* WinBoard change: Giving -ics without -icshost now pops up the startup
-dialog with "Use an Internet Chess Server" pre-selected, so that you get a
-menu of chess servers instead of going directly to ICC.
-
-* Bug fix: WinBoard's SaveSettings was saving -icshost, -icsport, and
--icshelper in winboard.ini. This causes a problem if you use a different
-icshost later that needs the default values for icsport (5000) and
-icshelper ("", meaning none).
-
-* Disabled complaints about unexpected "[Ii]llegal move" messages from
-the chess program; we still get them at times.
-
-* Greatly simplified the code for Move Now and SIGINT (ATTENTION). Fixes
-the bug where Move Now did not work with GNU Chess in WinBoard, and
-several more obscure bugs as well. Reintroduces a minor bug: GNU Chess might
-not think on your time after a Move Now command. Trying to fix this
-causes too many other problems. Documented change in engine-intf.txt.
-
-* Cleaned up code for obtaining ratings from ICS. It was kludgey and may
-have had bugs on systems with no "Creating:" message. It should fail
-gracefully there, just not finding the ratings.
-
-3.6.0 -- Thu May 8 19:55:58 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
-
-* WinBoard now has right-button context menus in the ICS Interaction
-window. Some of the items do immediate commands on the player name you
-have selected or pointed to. (Suggested by Paolo Casaschi.) Also, the
-middle button or shift+right does a immediate Copy and Paste.
-
-* Fixed a bug in Zippy's wild rejection. The bug was causing Zippy to
-reject all forms of wild. Now it rejects only 1, 9, 16, 17, and 24, as
-was intended. These variants have different rules, while the other
-variants defined so far only have different starting positions.
-(Actually, wild 2, 3, and 4 never allow castling, but may sometimes by
-chance have king and rook start on squares where castling appears legal.
-This could cause a problem later.)
-
-* Zippy now resumes adjourned games by feeding the chess program
-the move list instead of the position. Setting -getMoveList to False
-restores the old behavior. Feeding in the move list is better because
-it enables the chess program to correctly handle en passant legality,
-castling legality, draw by repetition, and draw by the 50 move rule.
-
-* Added a WinBoard startup dialog for people who run WinBoard.exe without
-using the Start menu or reading the help file. Instead of being dumped
-directly into GNU Chess mode, you now get a menu of choices. You now have
-to give the new WinBoard -cp option to go directly into chess engine mode.
-I did not add this feature to xboard.
-
-* Handling of "illegal move" from Crafty is now back on. (It was turned
-off in 3.4.6; see below.) Crafty 12.0 doesn't seem to send bogus ones
-anymore. I did have to suppress sending time and otim in analyze mode to
-make this work, but there is no harm in that.
-
-* Zippy now sends "gameend" to ICS at the end of each game. You can alias
-this to "seek" or whatever you like.
-
-* Added Crafty support for Move Now, using the "?" command. We test
-whether this command exists by trying it once at the start of the first
-game, before it really makes sense. If we don't get a message like
-"Illegal move ... ?", we assume it's OK. (We're careful about this
-because sending a "?" to GNU Chess on Move Now keeps it from pondering the
-next move as it should.)
-
-* Added support for a tellusererror command from the chess engine. See
-engine-intf.txt.
-
-* Attempted to make engine-intf.txt complete.
-
-* Minor fixes/cleanup to GameEnds code, to be sure we always interrupt
-when needed, and always undo an extra move generated by stopping the chess
-program while it is thinking.
-
-3.5.7 -- Sat May 03 22:37:44 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
-
-Beta release of both xboard and WinBoard.
-
-* Updated xboard documentation. I really wish the man page was built from
-the info file instead of being separate! It's a pain to update them both.
-
-* Updated documentation of the interface between XBoard/WinBoard and chess
-programs, and renamed it to engine-intf.txt.
-
-* Added support for tellics, telluser, and askuser commands from the chess
-engine. See engine-intf.txt.
-
-* Various bug fixes. On WinBoard, 256 color displays are finally handled
-right; no more color flashing when you switch windows unless the colors
-really need to be updated. Also, I think the problem of the console font
-failing to change or changing back by itself is finally fixed.
-
-3.5.6 -- Tue Apr 29 03:08:00 PDT 1997
-
-Beta release, WinBoard only. ChangeLog was out of date in release,
-updated here.
-
-* Added ICC timestamp and FICS timeseal to WinBoard distribution. These
-are my own ports to Win32, based on and used by permission of the owners
-of the proprietary source code (Daniel Sleator for timestamp, Henrik Gram
-for timeseal). The owners permit these programs to be distributed only in
-binary form (to help prevent cheating), so to avoid running afoul of the
-GPL, I have kept them as separate programs, not linked into the WinBoard
-address space. Updated Start menu icons to use them.
-
-* Miscellaneous smaller changes.
-
-3.5.5 -- Fri Apr 25 03:06:00 PDT 1997
-
-Beta release, WinBoard only. ChangeLog was out of date in release;
-updated here.
-
-* Added simple sound support to WinBoard.
-
-* Updated WinBoard documentation.
-
-* Internal implementation of the telnet protocol is now more complete.
-You can now hop through a VMS host on the way to ICS. For example, do
-"xboard -ics -icshost vms.host.edu -icsport 23", then log in. Do not use
-the -telnet flag; that says to use an *external* telnet program. To avoid
-double echoes, you need to force character mode in VMS telnet after
-connecting from VMS to ICS. Do "^]^Mset mode char^M^M".
-
-* Display opponent names in the title bar for MachineWhite, MachineBlack,
-and TwoMachines modes.
-
-* WinBoard now has an installer, built with InstallShield. The installer
-works with a binary-only distribution. Sources are still freely
-available, but now separately.
-
-* Added SaveSettings to WinBoard, which saves current option settings to
-winboard.ini. Made sure all options can be saved and loaded, including
-fonts and com port settings.
-
-* If the game ends while you are dragging a piece, we now don't let you
-finish the move. Formerly the move was accepted and your opponent's clock
-would start running again.
-
-3.5.4 -- Fri Apr 18 01:15:24 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
-
-Beta test release of WinBoard and xboard. The documentation remains
-out of date.
-
-* Many fixes and improvements to new WinBoard user interface code.
-
-* In Zippy mode, avoid sending another copy of the same move to the chess
-program if ICS sends us another copy of the board image. Hard to believe
-it took me until now to diagnose and fix this problem!
-
-3.5.3 -- Sat Apr 12 19:49:33 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
-
-Beta test release of WinBoard and xboard.
-
-* Fixed fatal bug in WinBoard input handling.
-
-* Made code to stop chess program for reuse a bit smarter. Removed kludge
-of "white" in initString; it didn't work well, and is unneeded
-with Crafty 11.21 and later.
-
-3.5.2 -- Sat Apr 12 15:40:01 PDT 1997 Tim Mann
-
-Beta test release of WinBoard.
-
-* Ignore check and permit promotion to King during suicide games; no need
-to turn off TestLegality.
-
-* Renamed CheckLegality to TestLegality to avoid confusion with the chess
-term "check".
-
-* Added Rematch to Action menu.
-
-* WinBoard now has a custom ICS interaction window with scrollback, a
-separate line for input, and colorization. Accelerators that conflict
-with normal editing keys were changed (by requiring Alt+) so they can work
-in both the console and the main window.
-
-* WinBoard error popups are now non-modal and disappear when you make a
-new move, as in xboard.
-
-* Configure now defaults to --disable-ptys on all systems. If anyone has
-an ancient SysV system where pipes don't work with select, they can still
-do "configure --enable-ptys" explicitly. I would appreciate getting a bug
-report if this happens to anyone, with complete output from configure and
-"uname -a".
-
-* "make install" now makes the installation directories too.
-
-* Fixed a bug that would cause an "Illegal move" message for Black from
-GNU Chess to be incorrectly considered bogus.
-
-* Handle name changes during an ICS game (FICS bname and wname commands).
-
-* You can force both chess programs to be killed at the end of each game
-by turning off the reuseChessPrograms option. There are still some
-problems with reusing Crafty even in version 11.20.
-
-* Now the second chess program stays around by default too, if it ever
-gets started.
-
-3.5.1 -- Sat Apr 5 16:47:48 PST 1997 Tim Mann
-
-Beta test release.
-
-* Don't kill off and restart the chess program for each game; keep the
-same one running, using the "new" command to start a new game. This
-change works around the problem in Windows 95 that makes WinBoard crash it
-at times, and is generally desirable to make new games start faster. The
-second chess program (for TwoMachines) is still killed at the end of the
-game, and unfortunately this can still crash Windows 95. Temporarily
-added "white" to the initString to make this work with Crafty 11.20, which
-has a minor bug in "new". Older versions of Crafty have worse bugs in
-"new"; they should not be used with this version of xboard.
-
-* Support for FICS suicide chess: Parse illegal moves (that leave King in
-check) in game history. If CheckLegality is off, allow promotion to King
-and illegal moves in game files. We still generate e2e4 style notation
-for illegal moves.
-
-* Handle FICS "has timeseal; checking" message.
-
-* Changed the coords from white back to black; this was a bug.
-
-* Fixed problems compiling with K&R compilers.
-
-* Fixed an old bug in RegisterMove that was crashing cmail on some systems
-(notably linux).
-
-3.5.0 -- Thu Jan 2 16:59:49 PST 1997 Tim Mann
-
-Thanks to Frank McIngvale for much of the work on versions 3.4.4 and above!
-
-* Fix Crafty resumed game time bug (frankm)
-
-* Word wrap text in Analysis window (frankm)
-
-* More debug info for XPM loading (frankm)
-
-* Replaced config.sub, config.guess, etc., with up-to-date versions from
-autoconf 2.12. Hopefully this will fix problems on Pentium Pro machines.
-
-* Removed some Makefile gunk that was causing looping for one person.
-
-3.4.7 -- Thu Dec 19 14:22:41 PST 1996 Tim Mann
-
-All changes from Frank:
-
-* Retrieve ratings from ICC (and FICS, etc., when they add the Creating:
-message), save them in the PGN tags, and pass them to Crafty in Zippy mode.
-
-* Add settable time delay between characters in ICS login script.
-
-* Colorize messages like personal tells. Fix false recognition of channel
-tells.
-
-* Pass "tells" from Crafty through to ICS (in Zippy mode).
-
-* Implement ~/ filename convention from C shell for game and position file
-names.
-
-* ZIPPYACCEPTONLY feature for testing.
-
-3.4, patchlevel 6 -- Sat Nov 23 16:58:50 PST 1996 Tim Mann
-
-* Put recognition of "illegal move" messages from Crafty for
-illegal castling, etc., inside an #if that is currently turned off,
-because of a bug in Crafty that generates bogus "illegal move" messages
-after some moves that are actually legal and accepted by Crafty.
-
-* Added -checkLegality option; previously this could not be turned off.
-
-* Fixed an old bug in finding default board size parameters.
-
-* Differentiated among channel tell, kibitz/whisper, and personal tell/say.
-
-* Fixed a bug in detecting Xpm in the configure script.
-
-3.4, patchlevel 5 -- Mon Nov 18 16:22:53 PST 1996 Tim Mann
-
-* Added zic2xpm to the kit; it had been omitted by mistake.
-
-* Added some default colors for -colorize
-
-3.4, patchlevel 4 -- Sat Nov 16 18:10:17 PST 1996 Tim Mann
-
-This is meant to be a beta release in preparation for version 3.5.
-
-* Added InfoXBoard and ManXBoard to the Help menu.
-
-* Made Frank's ICS input box optional, defaulting to off.
-
-* Merged in Frank McIngvale's XbKit. Many new features, including
--clickClick mode, the Analysis modes, piece flashing, ZIICS import,
-ICS text colorization, and the ICS input box. Many thanks to Frank for
-supplying and documenting this code.
-
-3.4, patchlevel 3 -- Mon Nov 11 18:23:14 PST 1996 Tim Mann
-
-Small set of changes made while Frank McIngvale was working on XbKit in
-parallel. Unreleased in this form.
-
-* Updated zippy.README.
-
-* Removed useless X event handler and removed strange code for copying
-form translation table to board that worked around the bug it caused.
-This makes changing bindings in .Xdefaults more straightforward.
-
-* Now pressing the Control key steps back one move, and releasing it steps
-forward again.
-
-* Moved quit from "q" to "Q" for greater safety.
-
-* Use "unobserve" instead of "observe" to stop observing; needed on FICS.
-
-* Support for interface variable.
-
-* Strip titles from people who are talking to us, so (for example) Zippy
-won't try things like "tell Darooha(*) hello". Needed on FICS.
-
-3.4, patchlevel 2 -- Tue Jul 9 19:06:42 PDT 1996 Tim Mann
-
-This patchlevel is not planned to be an announced release. It's in
-preparation for integrating Frank McIngvale's XbKit. It mostly contains
-minor fixes I've accumulated since 3.4.pl1.
-
-* WinBoard /telnet option now fires up an external program, as
-with xboard, instead of trying to use a feature of NT 3.1 that does not
-exist in later versions of NT or in Windows 95. ChangeLog for 3.4.pl1
-said this had been implemented there, but it really wasn't.
-
-* Indicating player to move by the icon color now works under Windows 95.
-
-* WinBoard now kills the chess program when you exit using the system menu
-or the [X] button. Thanks to Michael Lowe.
-
-* Minor changes to Zippy, including: Now understands wild challenges on
-FICS; these used to crash it. Removed limit on how fast a game will be
-accepted. Use "set formula ..." on the chess server to limit this if you
-are using GNU Chess. Now sends correct opponent name to Crafty.
-
-* Added some missing default values to documentation. Thanks to Stuart
-Cracraft.
-
-* Bugfix: Trying to print "No fonts match pattern" error message would
-crash. This can happen to Linux users who don't install Helvetica, for
-example.
-
-* Bugfix: Defaulting feature in -size n,n,n,n,n,n would put us in an
-infinite loop.
-
-* Added more directories to search for Athena widgets on HPUX.
-
-* New cmail (3.12) from Evan Welsh; includes small fix from Kayvan Sylvan.
-
-* Recognize "illegal move" messages from Crafty for illegal castling, etc.
-
-* Bugfix: "name" command added to zippy.c for Crafty was producing error
-message if GNU Chess was in use.
-
-* In bughouse mode, suppress holding messages from console window; show
-holdings only in banner.
-
-* Minor fixes/cleanup to Makefile.in and configure.in.
-
-3.4, patchlevel 1 -- Mon Dec 11 13:43:12 PST 1995 Tim Mann
-
-* This patchlevel updates WinBoard to match xboard, and includes a few
-fixes and minor improvements. "-size tiny" and "-size n,n,n,n,n,n"
-are still not implemented for WinBoard.
-
-* Installed support for Crafty based on code from Bob Hyatt.
-Currently the only documentation for this is in the FAQ, and a few
-things don't work with Crafty 8.23. Please do not report these
-problems as bugs in either xboard or Crafty. Bob and I know about
-them. The worst ones (if not all of them) should be fixed in Crafty
-8.24.
-
-* Changed the kludge command we send when gnuchess wants to print
-something that doesn't end with a newline, from "help" to "bogus".
-This works because the error message gnuchess prints ends with a
-newline. It also improves compatibility with Crafty, which doesn't
-need the kludge, but for which sending "help" causes a problem.
-
-* Don't draw grid at all if lineGap is 0; previously we drew the grid
-with X "0-width" lines (usually 1 pixel wide) and then overwrote it.
-
-* Makefile: Removed xboard.info from "all" target so we won't try to
-rebuild it, because this fails on hosts that don't have makeinfo
-installed. Other minor fixes to "clean" targets, etc.
-
-* Fixes and cleanup to Auto Comment code that handles continuation
-lines and highlighting.
-
-* Auto Observe now tries to observe the game from the point of view of
-the player who was on your gnotify list. Requested by rng.
-Limitations: We can't tell which player it was unless you have ICS
-highlighting turned on. Also, currently "observe foo" works as
-required (observing from foo's point of view) only on ICC, but FICS
-will probably implement this soon.
-
-* "-size tiny" now makes the default font smaller automatically. This
-was implemented by introducing an extra Form widget in the hierarchy
-for all xboard windows, named either normalLayout, smallLayout, or
-tinyLayout. So you can have resource specifications that apply only
-to certain layouts; in particular, XBoard*tinyLayout*font.
-
-* Bug fix: EditGame or EditPosition while playing or examining still was
-not really being permitted.
-
-* WinBoard bug fix: On the EditPosition menu, King did not work.
-
-* Added text catalog of WinSock error messages to WinBoard, because
-Microsoft still has not put them in the system message catalog.
-
-* Removed support for older ICS game-ending messages that do not have
-a PGN result token (*, 0-1, 1-0, or 1/2-1/2) after the closing '}'.
-The code for older messages was sometimes firing on the newer
-messages, due to parsing ambiguity. If the current code sees an old
-message, it will understand that the game is over, but will always
-display * as a result token instead of trying to guess the result by
-interpreting the text message.
-
-3.4, patchlevel 0 -- Tue Nov 21 01:02:50 PST 1995 Tim Mann
-
-* This patchlevel was released for xboard only.
-
-* Updated the info file. It should now be as up-to-date as the man page,
-with good English except in the parts that pertain only to AmyBoard.
-
-* Added "-size tiny", requested by Bob Hyatt. Also cleaned up bitmap
-support and added "-size n,n,n,n,n,n" to allow arbitrary-sized bitmaps,
-if the actual bitmaps are supplied by the user.
-
-* Updated bughouse support.
-
-3.3, patchlevel 4 -- Sat Nov 18 02:27:21 PST 1995 Tim Mann
-
-* Unreleased beta that works with preliminary FICS bughouse code. Will
-need changes before release to track FICS message changes.
-
-* Removed use of .EX macro from man page. It is not supported by some
-nroff -man macro packages, notably the one on Slackware Linux. Switched
-to boldface for references to xboard and other commands within the man
-page, as this seems to be the modern way.
-
-* Bug fix: If ICS rejected a move, it was correctly undone on the board,
-but the message widget still displayed the bad move. Reported by DAV.
-
-* Normally, xboard in ICS mode fetches the move list whenever the board
-display switches to a new game. Doing this is now an option
-(getMoveList) that can be turned off, which is useful if you are watching
-multiple blitz games. Requested by rng.
-
-* Move list fetching code is now smarter: it ignores a move list if it is
-not for the right game.
-
-* Added support for bughouse as implemented on FICS. Holdings are shown
-in the window title in place of the strength numbers. A menu on mouse
-buttons 2 and 3 (same on both) lets you drop pieces. There is no checking
-as to whether you actually hold the piece you are trying to drop; we rely
-on ICS to check that. Notation of the form P@f7 is generated and parsed.
-The mate detector does not understand that non-contact mate is not really
-mate in bughouse, but this does no real harm. It results in a "#"
-suffix being displayed on the move notation, but xboard does not assume the
-game is over.
-
-* Bug fix: Promotion to a knight was not working with ICC! Thanks to
-Wendigo for the report.
-
-* Bug fix: Special pty code for host types *-*-aix3* and *-*-irix3*
-(supplied from configure.in) had a bug that would cause childio.c to
-fail to compile, due to a "continue" that was not within a loop.
-
-* Bug fix: In pgntags.c, memory was being freed while still in use. One
-symptom this caused was that on some machines, cmail would fail with a
-message that it could not find the BlackNA tag. The error was in some
-submitted code that I included in version 3.2.pl3 without reading
-carefully enough. Anders Forberg noticed the symptoms, and Evan Welsh
-(who had nothing to do with causing the bug) found the bug and submitted a
-fix; thanks to them both.
-
-* Removed restriction against using EditGame while playing, observing,
-or examining on ICS. You still get a warning popup.
-
-3.3, patchlevel 3 -- Sat Sep 16 11:44:05 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
-
-* Bug fix: Going directly from MachineWhite to TwoMachines mode would kill
-off the second chess program after Black's first move.
-
-* Added -timeIncrement feature. Thanks to Joel Rivat.
-
-* Deleted code that tries to keep you from observing more than one game,
-or observing while playing or examining. There is actually no problem in
-doing this, except that every time an update comes in from a different
-game than is currently being displayed, xboard fetches the history of the
-new game, which may be time-consuming if you are on a slow link.
-
-* Fixed configure so as not to crash when neither lex nor flex is found.
-lex or flex is needed only if the user wants to rebuild parser.c. Thanks
-to Phil Humpherys for reporting the crash.
-
-* Bug fix: config.h.in used #define instead of #undef for some macros used
-in the pty code in childio.c. This causes the code to fail to compile on
-some architectures, because the symbols are supposed to be undefined, not
-defined to empty, when they are not set in configure. Bug originated in
-3.3.pl0 when config.h was introduced. Thanks to Phil Humpherys for report.
-
-* Bug fix: ShowThinking would not show anything when current position had
-no move to display in the move window. E.g., if position was created by
-LoadPosition or EditPosition.
-
-3.3, patchlevel 2 -- Mon Aug 28 11:11:11 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
-
-* Zippy code was omitted from xboard-3.3.pl1 by mistake; now included.
-
-* For WinBoard, added hint to help file that you may need to turn off
-LocalLineEditing while typing dialing commands to your modem.
-
-3.3, patchlevel 1 -- Sat Aug 19 15:13:30 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
-
-* Zippy distribution is no longer separate from regular xboard distribution.
-
-* Deal properly with Show Thinking output from GNU Chess when it is
-thinking on its opponent's time. In TwoMachines mode this output is
-suppressed to avoid interfering with the output from the machine that is
-on move; in other modes it is displayed (including the move that GNU Chess
-is predicting the user will make next). GNU Chess produces this output
-only if it is built without -DQUIETBACKGROUND defined; this symbol is
-defined by default in patchlevels before pl75, but undefined by default in
-pl75.
-
-* Bug fix: Handling of initial board position in move list for wild games
-was broken, so wild games could not be observed and adjourned wild games
-could not be continued. Thanks to "Maximum Entropy" for the bug report.
-
-* Added feature: algebraic notation now shows "+" indicator for check
-and "#" for checkmate, as called for in PGN standard. Thanks to Kevin
-Maher for the suggestion.
-
-3.3, patchlevel 0 -- Thu Jul 27 22:21:07 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
-
-* Changed configuration to use a config.h file instead of passing zillions
-of -D options on the cc command line.
-
-* Merged a small fix and some updates to the texinfo file from Jochen
-Wiedmann. The texinfo file still needs work.
-
-3.2, patchlevel 5 -- Tue Jul 18 20:29:39 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
-
-* Beta test release of xboard only.
-
-* Updated WinBoard code to include new xboard features.
-
-* Added texinfo file from Jochen Wiedmann to the release, but not as the
-primary documentation. It needs updating, and the English needs work.
-I did make a few improvements, mostly to change incorrect uses of @var to
-either @samp or @code as appropriate.
-
-* Merged in code changes to 3.2.pl4beta from Jochen Wiedmann.
-
-* Fixed EditComment; did not pop up window in previous beta.
-
-* Added AutoComment feature.
-
-* Added GameListDestroy to disable the outdated game list popup in cases
-where we load a new game file without building a new popup.
-
-* Added yyskipmoves feature to parser.l to speed up building of gamelist.
-
-* gamelist.c wouldn't compile with a non-ANSI compiler. Fixed.
-
-* Change to yy_text handling in patchlevel 3 still had problems. Can't
-use AC_DECL_YYTEXT in configure.in, because that defines YYTEXT_POINTER
-according to whether the lexer on the current host makes yytext a pointer.
-But most people will be using a parser.c that was generated on another
-host and shipped with the package.
-
-3.2, patchlevel 4 -- Sun Jun 25 19:13:43 PDT 1995 Tim Mann
-
-* Beta test release of xboard only.
-
-* Added FIREWALLS section to man page.
-
-* Changed -icsport to be a string. Now with the -telnet option,
-specifying -icsport "" suppresses the second argument to telnet.
-
-* Added EditTags feature. Removed AboutGame from menu, because EditTags
-subsumes it. EditTags suggested by Jochen Wiedmann and first implemented by
-him in AmyBoard. xboard implementation is my own.
-
-* Fixed some missing or incorrect prototypes.
-
-3.2, patchlevel 3 -- Sat Jun 3 18:57:38 1995 Tim Mann
-
-* Beta test release of xboard only.
-
-* New version of cmail from Evan Welsh, to fix compatibility problems with
-perl 5.0.
-
-* Added game list feature on Load Game, based on code from Jochen
-Wiedmann. Integrated it with cmail.
-
-* Several bug fixes from Jochen Wiedmann, including one to my yy_text
-workaround for the difference in the type of yytext between lex and flex.
-
-* Handle clock pause on FICS.
-
-* Suppress clocks in untimed FICS games (time control 0 0).
-
-* Rebuilt configure script with autoconf 2.3. This fixes a bug in
-configuring for X11R6, where -lSM -lICE would not be added when needed.
-
-* Fixed inconsistent type declarations on IntSigHandler and
-CmailSigHandler. Bug report from Josh Daynard.
-
-* backend.c wouldn't compile with a non-ANSI compiler. Fixed.
-
-3.2, patchlevel 2 -- Tue Feb 7 14:50:30 1995 Tim Mann
-
-* Minor release of both xboard and WinBoard.
-
-* Added recognition of some FICS messages. On the other hand FICS is also
-changing some of its messages to match what xboard already recognizes.
-
-* Temporarily went back to using "promote" command on ICS instead of
-"a7a8=Q", because FICS doesn't implement the latter yet.
-
-* We now avoid using overlapped I/O on pipes in WinBoard, to make Windows
-95 beta 2 happy. This lets WinBoard work with GNU Chess on Windows 95!
-
-* Installed patches from Jochen Wiedmann to coordinate with Amiga XBoard.
-
-* Installed patch to cmail bug in LoadGame from Evan Welsh.
-
-* Bugfix: checkmate and stalemate moves entered with EditGame in ICS mode
-were not being handled correctly. Bug was in GameEnds().
-
-* Implemented EchoOn and EchoOff for xboard, using system("stty echo\n").
-Now passwords won't be echoed when you connect directly to ICS. Also,
-telnet negotiation characters aren't displayed (when possible).
-
-* Implemented more of the telnet protocol. Now connecting to a telnet
-server with "-icsport 23" should work even without giving the -telnet
-option. The telnet is in "old line-by-line mode".
-
-3.2, patchlevel 1 -- Sat Dec 10 13:50:46 1994 Tim Mann
-
-* This patchlevel released for WinBoard only.
-
-* winboard.c: Fixed ConsoleInputThread(). Needed to change CRLF to LF,
-not to CR. This was stopping normal /ics mode from working. Thanks to
-Asher Kobin for the bug report.
-
-* winboard.c: Fixed Raw(), EchoOn(), EchoOff(). Now they take effect
-immediately, not on the next console read after the one in progress.
-
-* winboard.c: Attempted to make WinBoard work with gnuchessx running
-directly on Windows (not remotely via rsh). It now works on NT, but only
-if gnuchess is told not to think on its opponent's time ("easy\n" removed
-from initString). The problem seems to be that GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent
-is not doing anything. On Windows 95 beta 2, we get error messages on
-both reading and writing to gnuchessx; I didn't investigate why.
-
-3.2, patchlevel 0 -- Wed Dec 7 13:23:36 1994 Tim Mann
-
-* Thanks to all the beta testers who gave me feedback: Josef Nelissen,
-Steve Booth, Evan Welsh, Dima Dakhnovsky, Chris Petroff, Peter Jansen,
-Derek Terveer, Michel van der List, Richard Lloyd, Shelly Mistry, and Mike
-Lee. Sorry if I forgot anyone. Thanks to Virendra Kumar Mehta for
-information about DYNIX/ptx.
-
-* Don't exit on keyboard EOF unless we get two in a row.
-
-* WinBoard only: added -localLineEdit switch to allow turning off local
-line editing if you really want to. It is still a bad idea to let the
-echoing be done remotely, however; see below.
-
-* Fixed some configure problems on HP-UX. [Steve Booth]
-
-* Fixed (I hope) configure problem on SunOS 5.3/Solaris 2.3. [Josef Nelissen]
-
-* cmail bugfix from Evan Welsh (cmail 3.4).
-
-3.1, patchlevel 9 -- Fri Dec 2 23:54:56 1994 Tim Mann
-
-* Beta distribution only
-
-* Always do local echo/edit of user typing in ICS mode. Doing the echo
-downstream may seem nicer in some modes, and it can be hard to turn that
-echo off, but the echoed characters can be interleaved with ICS output
-and make it impossible to parse correctly. For xboard this involved only
-a change to recommendations in the man page, as Raw() isn't implemented.
-For WinBoard, removing Raw() made a real difference. Added code in
-WinBoard to change /r/n back into /r on keyboard input, as we get the
-former when Raw() is not called.
-
-* Do not issue ICS "refresh" command after we start to observe a game
-unless we get to the next prompt without seeing a board image. Newest
-version of ICS doesn't require this refresh, but old versions around still
-do.
-
-* cmail bugfix and small code cleanup in LoadGame, from Evan Welsh.
-
-* Added keyboard accelerators N/P for LoadNextGame/LoadPreviousGame. Evan
-Welsh request.
-
-* Using "-" on the command line as a filename for loading (saving) games
-or positions specifies the standard input (standard output). Alain Picard
-suggestion.
-
-* On WinBoard only, a command line option without a leading '-' or '/' is
-now taken as the value of -lgf.
-
-* Changed to not use stdin, stdout, stderr as initializers in backend.c;
-needed for GNU libc compatibility. You also must build parser.c with flex
-(not lex) if you are using GNU libc, to avoid having the same problem
-there.
-
-* Changed WinBoard to avoid using "overlapped" input on the console. It
-now seems to fully work on Windows 95 beta 2.
-
-* Improved comment popups on WinBoard. Now newlines are handled properly,
-and the plain Comment popup window doesn't disappear and reappear when we
-step to a new move with a new comment.
-
-* Fixed bugs in detecting the absence of the time and otim commands.
-
-* Added built-in implementation of rcmd protocol to WinBoard. Windows NT
-does not implement passing signals through rsh, and Windows 95 does not
-have rsh at all.
-
-* Added -remoteUser option.
-
-3.1, patchlevel 8 -- Mon Nov 28 15:26:07 1994 Tim Mann
-
-* Beta distribution only
-
-* Rearranged ChangeLog file into reverse chronological order to be closer
-to GNU standards.
-
-* Integrated new cmail code from Evan Welsh (including cmail RCS rev 3.2).
-Includes a bug fix to TruncateGame.
-
-* Updated ICS address to be chess.lm.com.
-
-* Bug fixes to handling the aftermath of FatalError. Thanks to Chris
-Petroff for the bug report.
-
-* Test for remsh before rsh, other fixes for HP-UX. Thanks to Richard
-Lloyd. I wasn't able to do all the things he suggested, so there may
-still be some rough edges in building on HP-UX. See the FAQ file for hints.
-
-* Bug fix; added missing check for HAVE_SYS_SYSTEMINFO. Thanks to Josef
-Nelissen for testing on Solaris 2.x.
-
-* Updated WinBoard to match xboard. (WinBoard still has a few option
-dialogs that don't exist in xboard.)
-
-* Changed Hint output to a popup.
-
-* ShowThinking output and move output no longer overwrite each other.
-ShowThinking output won't appear if the displayed position is not current.
-ShowThinking output in TwoMachines mode made clearer and documented.
-
-* Implemented --enable-ptys and --disable-ptys arguments to configure.
-
-* Fixed Book and Hint code to work over a pty with echo enabled and tabs
-expanded to spaces. Thanks to Dima Dahknovsky for the bug report.
-
-* Moved Attention calls from all over xboard to one place, inside
-SendToProgram.
-
-* Added bulletproofing to ShowThinkingEvent.
-
-* Added code to handle "refresh N" boards that come in from ICS properly,
-assuming ICS is changed to mark them with a new relation code (-3).
-
-3.1, patchlevel 7 -- Sun Nov 13 22:16:01 PST 1994 -- Tim Mann
-
-* Beta distribution only
-
-* Changed ShowThinking to just show the current best line in the
-DisplayMessage area, instead of dumping everything to stdout.
-
-* Installed new cmail (RCS rev 3.1) and cmail.man (RCS rev 1.10), and
-changes to cmail code in backend.c, from Evan Welsh.
-
-* Miscellaneous minor fixes.
-
-3.1, patchlevel 6 -- Fri Nov 4 12:53:53 PST 1994 -- Tim Mann
-
-* This patchlevel was not actually released to anyone.
-
-* Updated the pty code to be based on GNU Emacs 19.24, and moved it to a
-separate file. It was hard to split out just the pty configuration from
-all the stuff emacs does with its custom configure script and .h files,
-but I did my best.
-
-* Converted from imake to GNU autoconf. This was a serious upheaval.
-
-* Put in code to help trap "error gathering move list" problem reported by
-Michel van der List if it recurs. I couldn't reproduce it.
-
-3.1, patchlevel 5 -- Mon Oct 31 21:12:00 PST 1994 -- Tim Mann
-
-* Beta distribution only.
-
-* We now test for checkmate or stalemate in EditGame mode after every user
-move, and in LoadGame mode whenever we hit the end of a game without
-seeing a PGN end marker. cmail needs an update to deal with this
-correctly; Evan promises one.
-
-* Bugfixes in new move generator. Thanks to Mike Lee for reporting one of
-the bugs.
-
-* Imakefile was omitted from patchlevel 4.
-
-3.1, patchlevel 4 -- Mon Sep 19 18:19:46 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
-
-* Beta distribution only.
-
-* The move generator includes a mate tester. Initially this is used only
-by cmail, and even that usage needs further work.
-
-* Wrote a true move generator and used it to replace all the move
-disambiguation and legality checking code in parser.l. The move generator
-is capable of dealing correctly with en passant and castling availability,
-but the rest of the program still does not keep track of this information.
-
-* Bug fix: xboard did not handle "foo has made you an examiner of game 23"
-message. Thus you could not use examine features until the next board
-came in, showing your new relation to the game. Thanks to POOKIEWOOKIE on ICS
-for the bug report.
-
-* Added AutoObserve feature. Thanks to Chris Petroff for the idea.
-
-* Added Book feature to use new gnuchess "bk" command. Mike McGann request.
-
-* Redid code to handle missing "time" command in gnuchess, because latest
-gnuchess no longer sends a response to this command.
-
-* Eliminated need for -DFLEX. Thanks to Michael Shields (Vladimir?) for
-the idea.
-
-* Added missing code to implement MoveNow in TwoMachines mode.
-
-* Added ShowThinking feature. Thanks to Richard Lloyd for the idea.
-
-* Applied patches from Evan Welsh; some fixes and improvements to the
-cmail code.
-
-* Fixed bug in moving from EndOfGame mode to MachineWhite or MachineBlack,
-introduced in previous patchlevel. Also fixed related bug in ending a
-game in ICS mode; was entering EndOfGame mode instead of IcsIdle.
-
-* Added patch to implement internetChessServerLogonScript flag, from Kevin
-O'Connor. Thanks!
-
-3.1, patchlevel 3 -- Wed Sep 7 13:22:07 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
-
-* Beta distribution only.
-
-* Merged in new cmail code from Evan Welsh. He added the ability to have
-more than one game per message, needed for official IECG matches. I added
-the ability to resign or offer/accept/decline a draw in a cmail game.
-
-* Bugfix: invalid -tc option caused segmentation fault; DisplayFatalError
-was called too early in initialization. Georges Honore reported this bug.
-
-* Decided to keep EndOfGame mode as an element of the user interface---it
-means that a gnuchess game or loaded game has ended, and the user must
-explicitly select EditGame to edit it, rather than just being able to
-enter more moves freely. But internally there is no longer an invariant
-tying this mode to whether the chess program is running.
-
-* Zippy bugfix: Was saving only the final position in the -sgf file when
-the game ended by something other than resignation or flag. Also fixed
-the longstanding bug that Zippy would think the final board of such a game
-was a new game and restart the chess program.
-
-* Now does a better job of faking castling availability in FEN. We still
-don't really keep track of it, but now at least we don't say that castling
-is still available when the king or rook is not on its home square.
-
-* Bugfix: Initial board of game history for wild games was going through
-too much processing, causing us to forget the game length, which is now
-needed by ParseGameHistory. This was causing problems with resuming
-adjourned wild games.
-
-* Updated ICS host to ics.onenet.net.
-
-* Zippy now accepts challenges where the opponent specified his color.
-
-* Added ZIPPYPASSWORD2 to let operator give commands directly to gnuchess.
-
-* Bitmap directory can include alternative icons now, too.
-
-* Handle "Game * (*) has no examiners" message from ICS.
-
-* Revamped window title and icon name selection.
-
-3.1, patchlevel 2 -- Sun Jun 12 17:16:28 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
-
-* "Beta" distribution for Zippy users only.
-
-* Bugfix: common.h was assuming that X11 type Boolean is char, which is
-not always true. This might have caused all sorts of obscure bugs!
-
-* Installed new bitmaps from Elmar Bartel as the default. Many thanks!
-The old bitmaps can be used by changing the "bitmaps" symbolic link before
-compiling xboard, or by using the -bitmapDirectory option at runtime.
-
-* Loading a game that ends with the PGN unfinished symbol ("*") now always
-leaves you in EditGame mode.
-
-* Added documentation of -icscomm to man page. Thanks to Maarten Remkes
-for the linux script.
-
-* ^C now kills gnuchess as well as xboard. Thanks to Dima Dakhnovsky for
-reminding me how to do this.
-
-* Bitmap icon color now indicates player to move. Stuart Cracraft
-suggestion.
-
-* Changed piece bitmap flags to have just one flag, which points to a
-directory full of bitmaps, instead of a flag for each bitmap. Also
-changed bitmap naming convention.
-
-* "Connection closed by ICS" is no longer a FatalError popup. This was
-too annoying in the normal case where the user typed "quit".
-
-* Changed default font to 14 pixels instead of 10 points. This seems to
-make it close to the size I want it to be on more displays.
-
-* Major mode (GNU Chess, etc.) appears in title bar. Stuart Cracraft
-request.
-
-* Bug fix: EditGameEvent, MachineBlackEvent, MachineWhiteEvent, and
-TwoMachinesEvent were calling PauseEvent to get out of pause mode, which
-now has undesired side effects, such as advancing the display to the
-forwardMostMove. It works fine to just set pausing = FALSE instead.
-
-* IcsExamining mode now lets you access ICS edit position commands using
-the same popup menus as xboard's EditPosition mode. Thanks to DAV on ICS
-for inspiring the idea.
-
-* Corrected test for gcc on HP in Imakefile; thanks to Richard Lloyd.
-
-3.1, patchlevel 1 -- Wed Jun 1 16:25:11 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
-
-* Added parser.c.lex and parser.c.flex to the distribution.
-
-* Added HP gcc options to Imakefile, from Mats Nylen.
-
-* EndOfGame mode no longer highlights EditGame mode indicator, because the
-modes really do differ. I would like to get rid of EndOfGame mode in the
-future, at least as far as users can see.
-
-* Larger %a in parser.l, needed for RS/6000 users.
-
-* Minor improvements to Mail Move error messages.
-
-* When -debug flag is given to xboard, -v is passed to cmail.
-
-* Old Save Style uses "1. ..." instead of "1..." when black moves after a
-comment; more like xboard 3.0's actual style.
-
-* New version of cmail from Evan Welsh. Looks for UCB Mail in a more
-portable way and has some minor bug fixes.
-
-* Bug fix: Saving a FEN position while in EditPosition mode with black to
-play was showing white to play in the saved position.
-
-3.1, patchlevel 0 -- Fri May 20 16:36:15 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
-
-* This is the first general release since 3.0, patchlevel 9. Releases
-since then have been limited-distribution or beta releases.
-
-* Thanks to my version 3.1 beta testers: Dmitry Dakhnovsky, Ed Hanway,
-Richard Lloyd, Mike McGann, Shelly Mistry, Josef Nelissen, Chris Petroff,
-Jack Robertson, Michel van der List, Ky Macpherson, Derek Terveer, and
-Evan Welsh. Sorry if I've forgotten anyone who gave me feedback.
-
-* Updated man page.
-
-* Minor cleanup on menu sensitivity code.
-
-* Integrated another even better version of cmail from Evan Welsh,
-including some code he supplied in xboard itself.
-
-* A few more fixes to cmail support.
-
-* Automatically update clocks after an ICS "moretime" command.
-
-* Handle ICS automatic examine mode (set examine 1) after a game.
-
-3.0, patchlevel 14 -- Tue May 17 13:41:44 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
-
-* Beta test release only.
-
-* Don't suppress prompt on first board of game being examined; otherwise
-it looks like nothing happened at all (i.e., like you're lagged).
-
-* Added StopExamining and StopObserving (Chris Petroff suggestion).
-
-* Made Reset do a refresh on ICS. John Chanak's original ICS code for
-xboard tried to do this; I finally decided it was a good idea after all.
-
-* Fixed bugs in handling updates that come in while you are pausing in
-examine mode. This is pretty tricky to do right.
-
-* Made un-Pausing immediately pop you to the current position. This is
-always necessary in examine mode, since the game may have changed under
-you; your remembered moves might no longer be right. So I made it do the
-same in all modes.
-
-* Took Detach Examine mode back out...used Pause mode for this instead!
-
-* Put in a trap for the GNU Chess bug of printing an Illegal Move message
-when its own hint move is illegal.
-
-* Attempted to fix a Zippy bug; bogus "exited unexpectedly" messages after
-it checkmates its opponent. This involved adding an argument to GameEnds
-to say who says it ended (ICS, GNU, etc.) and taking different actions in
-different cases. Unfortunately, this just restored an older Zippy bug, where
-Zippy restarts gnuchess when it gets the board with the final position,
-because GameEnds still puts xboard in EndOfGame mode. Sigh.
-
-* We now capture elapsed time on last move when getting game history.
-(Josef Nelissen bug report)
-
-* Rewrote code to redisplay last file title so it really works.
-
-* Fixed bug in oldSaveStyle.
-
-* Larger %a and %o were needed for lex.
-
-3.0, patchlevel 13 -- Mon May 16 16:26:22 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
-
-* Beta test release only.
-
-* FatalError popups stay on the screen now. If the error is really fatal,
-all functions are disabled, and the program exits when you press OK.
-
-* Redisplay last file title when using Load (Next/Previous/Same) Game.
-
-* Zippy understands new match challenge message format on ICS.
-
-* Added Revert command.
-
-* When examining a game on ICS, < > buttons do ICS backward/forward
-commands, unless you set the Detach Examine option. Thanks to Dima
-Dakhnovsky for the idea.
-
-* Fixed various minor problems in cmail mode.
-
-* cmail generates the tags now. New version of cmail from Evan Welsh.
-
-* cmail mode won't let you do MailMove unless the currently displayed
-position is exactly one move past the end of the game you loaded.
-
-* Fixed building of man pages in Imakefile
-
-* Updates to INSTALL file
-
-3.0, patchlevel 12 -- Sat May 7 21:10:03 PDT 1994 -- Tim Mann
-
-* Beta test release only.
-
-* Brought man page up to date.
-
-* Added Shift+R to resign from keyboard.
-
-* Some items on Action menu available in GNU Chess mode now.
-
-* Revamped Action menu.
-
-* Reordered functions in backend.c as a small step toward reorganizing
-this whole mess.
-
-* Generate TimeControl PGN tag.
-
-* Get type of ICS game (e.g., rated blitz) and save in PGN tags.
-
-* Bug fix: Clocks were not redisplayed when entering EditGame mode.
-
-* Bug fix: Clocks were not being redisplayed after loading a game file
-with -td 0, so they could show the wrong color active.
-
-* Bug fix: Chess programs would be killed and match mode would exit
-prematurely when loading a PGN game fragment ending with "*".
-
-* ICS command "sposition" no longer confuses xboard.
-
-* Integrated new version of cmail (with support code in xboard) from Evan
-Welsh.
-
-* Added TruncateGame, MoveNow, RetractMove, and QuietPlay.
-
-* Bug fix: switching between MachineWhite and MachineBlack was not calling
-Attention(). Reported by Dino Dini.
-
-* More improvements to INSTALL and Imakefile.
-
-* Pack moves into 79 character lines in PGN output. We don't generate
-check indications, and we always break the line before the result,
-so this is not quite PGN export format.
-
-* Use FEN tag in PGN.
-
-* Improved finding and counting of game starts in save files.
-
-* Negative position or game numbers in -lpi/-lgi mean to seek to that byte
-offset. Hook for possible future features, not in man page.
-
-* Detect and handle absence of either "time" or "otim" commands in
-gnuchess.
-
-* Don't use "promote" command to ICS anymore.
-
-* Handle switching sides and taking back moves on FICS.
-
-* Handle flip state flag in style 12 board.
-
-* Handle examine mode on ICS.
-
-* Improved error popups for various kinds of illegal moves.
-
-* Suppress unasked-for hints from gnuchess (which it generates in post
-mode).
-
-* Load/save position functions use FEN. Old style also supported.
-
-* Added detailed error messages if loading a bitmap file fails.
-
-* Small board has 2-pixel lines between squares instead of 3-pixel.
-
-* Added OldSaveStyle and AboutGame.
-
-* Renamed ForceMoves to EditGame.
-
-3.0, patchlevel 11 -- Tue Sep 21 15:25:36 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
-
-* The following changes were present in xboard 3.0, patchlevel 11, but the
-first group did not make it into WinBoard 3.0 until later. xboard
-3.0.pl11 was a limited-distribution release only, mostly to Zippy users.
-
-* Man page minor fixes.
-
-* Added a missing file close.
-
-* Removed automatic error popdown on Reset, which was destroying some
-error messages before they could be read.
-
-* Fixed char vs. unsigned char warnings on bitmaps.
-
-* Use ICS board style 12. Some improvements to ICS parsing.
-
-* Comment window is now labelled with the move the comment is on, and
-comments don't pop down when you step to the next move.
-
-* Save files now in PGN format.
-
-* Support for loading PGN files. PGN tags pop up when a PGN game file
-is loaded.
-
-* More info in INSTALL and Imakefile about building for Suns (and
-other systems).
-
-* WinBoard 3.0 patchlevel 11 split off from an early version of xboard
-3.0 patchlevel 11, so it does not have all the features of that
-patchlevel. The following changes made it into both xboard and
-WinBoard:
-
-* Made Comment dialog non-modal in WinBoard.
-
-* EndOfGame mode is now more transparent. It looks like ForceMoves
-mode except that there is no chess program running.
-
-* Small bug fixes in clock management. Most noticeably, pausing when
-it is gnuchess's move now works as documented (again).
-
-* Add minimal support for -icscomm option. Not documented yet because
-I haven't sorted out the issues with setting the tty modes on the comm
-port device, or with locking it properly. But it's usable by wizards.
-
-* Don't restart the chess program upon Backward event from EndOfGame mode.
-
-* Suppress extra prompt after ICS sends us a board.
-
-3.0, patchlevel 10 -- Sat Sep 11 18:44:03 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
-
-* Beta test release only.
-
-* Zippy now plays chess. zippy.c and zippy.h are still not included
-in the standard distribution, but are available on request.
-
-* Switched to using style 12 on ICS.
-
-* Updated man page, and documented use of XBoard*form.translations to
-add more shortcut keys.
-
-* Added shortcut keys "d" to claim/offer/accept a draw, and "t" to
-call flag. Suggested by venu on ICS.
-
-* More explicit instructions in INSTALL file.
-
-3.0, patchlevel 9 -- Tue Sep 7 14:02:00 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
-
-* General release, minor update to 3.0.pl8.
-
-* Loosened checking on whether it's okay to start a move, to satisfy
-ICS ultra-blitz players. Now we don't check whether it's your turn
-until you let go of the piece.
-
-* Parser now recognizes "+-+" as meaning the game ended in a draw.
-
-* Got rid of S_NONE symbol, which seems to conflict with some symbol
-Sun defines.
-
-* Tweaked the man page. Clarified that there is currently no way for
-two people running copies of xboard to play each other without going
-through the Internet Chess Server.
-
-* Fixed a bug in color name conversion. Asking for two different
-colors whose names were the same in the first four characters would
-get you two copies of the first one. Thanks to Volker Zink for the
-bug report.
-
-* Improved confusing Usage() message.
-
-* Added a bunch of Sun information to the Imakefile and INSTALL file.
-Thanks to Ed Hanway, Arik Klingensmith, and others who responded.
-
-* Test for defined(WIN32) instead of !defined(unix).
-
-* Avoid using (void *) type with non-ANSI C compilers. Thanks to
-James Altucher for the bug report.
-
-3.0, patchlevel 8 -- Thu Sep 2 12:23:01 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
-
-* Note: Patchlevel 8 was the first non-beta release of xboard 3.0
-
-* Added cmail to distribution. Contributed (and still maintained) by
-Evan Welsh.
-
-* Bug fix: -queen option wasn't initializing menu check. Reported by
-Pat Surry.
-
-3.0, patchlevel 7 -- Thu Aug 26 13:23:24 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
-
-* Sent WinBoard 3.0.pl7 to Torre on ICS
-
-* Added parser.h to hold the interface to parser.l
-
-* Upgraded COPYING file and copyright notices to GNU GPL version 2.
-
-3.0, patchlevel 6 -- Tue Aug 24 15:16:13 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
-
-* We no longer display intermediate positions or intermediate comments
-while loading a game file with -timeDelay 0 or loading an opening to
-start up a -matchMode game.
-
-* Loading an empty game from an xboard save file now gives a status
-message "No moves in game" instead of an error popup saying "Game not
-found in file."
-
-* Added comment.awk to distribution.
-
-3.0, patchlevel 5 -- Tue Aug 17 16:45:54 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
-
-* Bug fix: xboard would crash if it couldn't get all its colors; now
-it switches to monoMode instead. Also, xboard was trying to convert
-color resources even when using a b/w display. Reported by Larry
-Rogers.
-
-* Bug fix: Declared fields of TimeMark as signed so that we get signed
-instead of unsigned arithmetic. SubtractTimeMarks was breaking on
-Alpha AXP (which has 64-bit longs) with old declarations. Reported by
-Michel van der List.
-
-* Bug fixes: Keyboard accelerators now work after EditComment window is
-popped down. Iconize keyboard accelerator now works even if xboard
-was started with -iconic flag and later deiconized.
-
-* Bug fix: The routine that tests whether a move is illegal because it
-would leave you in check was not handling e.p. captures properly.
-Reported by Patrick Surry.
-
-* Bug (?) fix: Was adding time to clocks at time control even when
-loading a game file. Actually it's not entirely clear how time
-controls should be dealt with when some moves are loaded from a file
-or clicked in with ForceMoves. For now ForceMoves mode does add the
-time (because it can be used to change moves during a live game), but
-LoadGame mode does not.
-
-* Updated usage message.
-
-* Previous attempted fix to matchMode had broken TwoMachines mode and
-generally needed more work. Also simplified command line interface to
-matchMode.
-
-3.0, patchlevel 4 -- Thu Aug 5 14:17:18 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
-
-* Thanks again to the beta testers listed for 3.0 patchlevel 3, and also
-Desnogues, Steve Cariglia, Niklas Engsner, Mark Silver, and Roger Rowe.
-
-* Reorganized man page, splitting OPTIONS into subsections.
-
-* matchMode was very broken; fixed.
-
-* Changed convention for turning off command line options from --opt
-to -xopt, to be less inconsistent with GNU standards. Also changed
-the long command line options to take True/False arguments like
-resources; seems to make more sense this way.
-
-* Added AlwaysQueen option -- suppresses promotion dialog and always
-promotes to a queen if you move a pawn to the last rank. Has no
-effect on gnuchess (or your ICS opponents!) -- they can still
-underpromote.
-
-* Subtracted an extra fudge term when determining how wide message and
-title widgets should be. This fixes a problem some beta testers had.
-Wish I knew why it's needed.
-
-* Bugfix in parser; symptom was that you couldn't do LoadGame after
-observing a game on ICS.
-
-* Bugfix in Forward; didn't work after game ended while Pause was turned on.
-
-* Removed bogus execute bits on .h files.
-
-* Use REMOTE_SHELL and TELNET_PROGRAM definitions.
-
-* MachineWhite and MachineBlack now work from TwoMachines mode.
-
-* Popping down an error message with the [ok] button was not turning off
-the errorUp flag, so the next move would cause xboard to try to pop it
-down again, resulting in a wild memory reference and sometimes a crash.
-
-3.0, patchlevel 3 -- Tue Aug 3 17:40:27 1993 -- Tim Mann
-
-* Thanks to my beta testers: Patrick Surry, Takuya Kojima, Robert J. Luoma,
-Chris L. Petroff, Richard K. Lloyd, Michel van der List, Craig Metz,
-Antoon Frehe, Simon Clift, Shelly, Eric Peterson, Christopher Mitchell,
-Martin Koch, Ed Hanway, Steve Booth, Udo, Ken Hobday, and Joseph Duhamel.
-
-* Improved error messages for trying to move the wrong color pieces or
-to move when it's not your turn.
-
-* Special code for monoMode on 1-bit displays now understands displays
-where 1=white and 0=black.
-
-* Declare getenv() if <stdlib.h> not included; avoids a compiler warning.
-
-* Documented borderXoffset and borderYoffset.
-
-* Added -titleInWindow option for use with X window managers that
-don't let us set the title in the window banner.
-
-* Fixed error message printing in WinBoard; system error messages no
-longer appear as numeric codes.
-
-* The error message popup is now non-modal; you don't have to press the
-[ok] button before you can do something else. In addition, the popup is
-positioned so that it doesn't cover up the board (too much), and making a
-move or otherwise clicking on the board pops it down. (Not implemented in
-WinBoard.)
-
-* You can now call your opponent's flag in ICS mode by clicking on his
-clock.
-
-* Fixed minor bugs in -flipView option and documented exactly how xboard
-decides which way to flip the view.
-
-3.0, patchlevel 2 -- Fri Jul 30 22:20:23 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
-
-* Added Autosave to Options menu. Would be better to have Save
-Options dialog as in WinBoard, but this was quick to do and gives the
-most-needed functionality.
-
-* Changed "Reload Game" on menu to "Reload Same Game".
-
-3.0, patchlevel 1 -- Thu Jul 8 21:22:59 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
-
-* Sent a copy of patchlevel 1 to Patrick Surry to beta-test.
-
-* Added -cmail option that sets appData.cmailMode. Currently a no-op.
-In the future this may set special modes for use by the cmail script
-for playing chess by email.
-
-* Added LoadNextGame, LoadPreviousGame, and ReloadGame to File menu.
-ReloadGame suggested by Patrick Surry.
-
-* Added -flipView command-line option. Suggested by Patrick Surry.
-
-* Fixed bugs in parser.l: (1) Pattern for "# xboard game file ..."
-needed to match to end of line. (2) Start of a new file was not matching
-the ^ start-of-line character. The fix for this is a kludge.
-
-* Made game counting code in LoadGame more robust, and made LoadGame
-able to detect the end of a saved partial game (by noticing the start
-of the next game) in game files created by XBoard itself. We don't
-try to find the start of the next game that way in other kinds of game
-files, because the only way I can think of to do that is to look for
-another move #1, and that technique gets too many false hits.
-
-* Fixed recently introduced bug in LoadGame when game starts with a
-position diagram.
-
-3.0, patchlevel 0 -- Fri Jun 25 14:17:17 PDT 1993 -- Tim Mann
-
-* Changes in this patchlevel were too numerous to list. Larger ones are
-listed below.
-
-* Added a popup dialog to enter and edit comments. Inspired by some
-code from Patrick Surry. Changed the normal read-only comment popup
-to the same style.
-
-* Added ICS init script feature from Karl Schwamb.
-
-* Added some ESIX fixes and OMIT_SOCKETS ifdef option, from Kayvan Sylvan.
-
-* Revamped code to allow use of flex instead of lex on parser.l.
-Using flex requires adding -DFLEX to defines in Imakefile.
-
-* Source code is split into front end (xboard.c), which knows about X
-and Unix, and back end (backend.c), which knows about chess, gnuchess,
-and the ICS. There is also a front end for Windows NT.
-
-* Boolean command line options now use "-foo" to turn on and "--foo"
-to turn off instead of "-foo true" and "-foo false". [Later -xfoo;
-see above.]
-
-* Added menu commands to control autoflag, bell, and coords options.
-
-* User interface has a new look: (1) Menu bar instead of array of
-buttons. A few very commonly used features have small buttons in
-addition to being on the menus. (2) Large font for clock. (3) Pop-up
-dialogs for errors.
-
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