-\r
-What is XBoard?\r
-===============\r
-XBoard is a graphical chessboard for the X Window System. It can\r
-serve as a user interface for chess engines such as GNU Chess, for the\r
-Internet Chess Server, or for electronic mail correspondence chess.\r
-XBoard can also be used by itself. See the manual page xboard.txt for\r
-further details.\r
-\r
-XBoard is free software, copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation\r
-and released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). See the file\r
-COPYING for details.\r
-\r
-You can build xboard on most systems with the following commands.\r
-\r
- ./configure\r
- make\r
-\r
-See the file INSTALL for more detailed instructions.\r
-\r
-See the file FAQ.html for answers to frequently asked questions.\r
-\r
-\r
-What is WinBoard?\r
-=================\r
-WinBoard is a port of XBoard to run natively on Windows. It is part\r
-of the XBoard project and is released under the same terms as XBoard.\r
-\r
-You can build WinBoard using the free Cygwin toolchain from\r
-www.cygnus.com with the following commands.\r
-\r
- cd winboard\r
- make -f cygwin.mak\r
-\r
-You can build WinBoard using Microsoft Visual C with the following\r
-commands, or by opening the project in Visual Studio and clicking the\r
-build button.\r
-\r
- cd winboard\r
- nmake -f msvc.mak\r
-\r
-There is also a contributed .mak file for Borland C. It's not\r
-maintained and thus may need updating if you want to use it.\r
-\r
-\r
-Reporting problems\r
-==================\r
-\r
-Report bugs and problems with XBoard and WinBoard to\r
-<bug-xboard@gnu.org>. With XBoard, please use the "script" program\r
-to start a typescript, run XBoard with the -debug command line option,\r
-and include the typescript output in your message. With WinBoard,\r
-please use the /debug command line option and include the contents of\r
-the file WinBoard.debug. Also tell us what kind of machine and what\r
-operating system version you are using. On Unix, the command "uname\r
--a" will tell you this. On Windows, right-click on My Computer and\r
-select Properties.\r
-\r
-Here is a sample of approximately what you should type (on Unix):\r
-\r
- script\r
- uname -a\r
- ./configure\r
- make\r
- ./xboard -debug\r
- exit\r
- mail bug-xboard@gnu.org\r
- Subject: Your short description of the problem\r
- Your detailed description of the problem\r
- ~r typescript\r
- .\r
-\r
-If you improve XBoard, please send a message about your changes, and\r
-we will get in touch with you about merging them in to the main line\r
-of development.\r
-\r
-Version 4.3.14\r
-==============\r
-\r
-This relaese was not made by the GNU xboard team, but by H.G.Muller.\r
-It mainly contains developments on WinBoard. Nevertheless, an attempt\r
-has been started to back-port the enormous number of improvements that\r
-have been made to WinBoard since the Linux and Windows developments branched\r
-to xboard. This is reflected by the source tree now having the same format\r
-as that of xboard 4.2.7, including all the xboard sources. \r
-\r
-An enormous amount of work still has to be done to make the xboard version\r
-fully equivalent to WinBoard, especially on user-interface side. As a modest\r
-beginning, the xboard source files have been patched to allow their compilation\r
-with the newer back-end files from WinBoard. To this end, the number of piece\r
-types in xboard has been increased from 6 to 22, and the WinBoard bitmaps\r
-have been converted to xboard source format (.bm) and are included in the\r
-xboard bitmaps directory. Other quick patches include the coloring of the\r
-board squares (for xiangqi and holdings), and some code in the user-move\r
-handling to suppress all moves into or out of the area between board and\r
-holdings in crazyhouse, and the treatment of king-captures-own-piece\r
-as a possibly valid move (for FRC castling). This should make it possible \r
-to run xboard with the new back-end files without too much inconvenience.\r
-\r
-New xboard command-line options have been added to make the added back-end \r
-features available. The include the new variants (as argument of the old\r
--variant option), -boardWidth, -boardHeight and -holdingsSize. Be sure\r
-to call xboard with "-boardSize middling" or "-boardSize bulky" if you\r
-want to play with fairy pieces, or xboard might crash due to unavailability\r
-of bitmaps. Other added xboard options are:\r
-\r
-ADJUDICATION OPTIONS:\r
--checkMates\r
--testClaims\r
--materialDraws\r
--trivialDraws\r
--ruleMoves\r
--repeatsToDraw\r
--adjudicateLossThreshold\r
--firstScoreAbsolute\r
--secondScoreAbsolute\r
-\r
-TIME-CONTROL OPTIONS\r
--firstTimeOdds\r
--secondTimeOdds\r
--timeOddsMode\r
--firstNPS\r
--secondNPS\r
-\r
-GENERAL OPTIONS\r
--matchPause\r
--engineDebugOutput\r
--userName\r
--pgnExtendedInfo\r
--pgnEventHeader\r
--hideThinkingFromHuman\r
-\r
-This is all completely untested, but as the options merely switch on well-tested\r
-code in the back-end, there should not be too many problems with them.\r
-Bugs can be reported in the WinBoard forum.
\ No newline at end of file
+What is XBoard?
+===============
+XBoard is a graphical chessboard for the X Window System. It can
+serve as a user interface for chess engines such as GNU Chess, for the
+Internet Chess Server, or for electronic mail correspondence chess.
+XBoard can also be used by itself. See the manual page xboard.txt for
+further details.
+
+XBoard is free software, copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation
+and released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). See the file
+COPYING for details.
+
+You can build xboard on most systems with the following commands.
+
+ ./autogen.sh
+ ./configure
+ make
+
+See the file INSTALL for more detailed instructions.
+
+See the file FAQ.html for answers to frequently asked questions.
+
+
+What is WinBoard?
+=================
+WinBoard is a port of XBoard to run natively on Windows. It is part
+of the XBoard project and is released under the same terms as XBoard.
+
+You can build WinBoard using the free Cygwin toolchain from
+www.cygnus.com with the following commands.
+
+ cd winboard
+ make -f makefile.gcc
+
+You can build WinBoard using Microsoft Visual C with the following
+commands, or by opening the project in Visual Studio and clicking the
+build button.
+
+ cd winboard
+ nmake -f makefile.ms
+
+
+Reporting problems
+==================
+
+Report bugs and problems with XBoard and WinBoard to
+<bug-xboard@gnu.org>. With XBoard, please use the "script" program
+to start a typescript, run XBoard with the -debug command line option,
+and include the typescript output in your message. With WinBoard,
+please use the /debug command line option and include the contents of
+the file WinBoard.debug. Also tell us what kind of machine and what
+operating system version you are using. On Unix, the command "uname
+-a" will tell you this. On Windows, right-click on My Computer and
+select Properties.
+
+Here is a sample of approximately what you should type (on Unix):
+
+ script
+ uname -a
+ ./configure
+ make
+ ./xboard -debug
+ exit
+ mail bug-xboard@gnu.org
+ Subject: Your short description of the problem
+ Your detailed description of the problem
+ ~r typescript
+ .
+
+If you improve XBoard, please send a message about your changes, and
+we will get in touch with you about merging them in to the main line
+of development.
+
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