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--- a/zippy.README
+++ b/zippy.README
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 Zippy README file
 For version xboard/WinBoard 4.2.4 and later only
-$Id$
 -----------------------------------------------------
 
 Zippy is a program that lets GNU Chess act as a computer player on an
@@ -46,12 +45,12 @@ point.  You might find other suitable material at these sites.  Prose
 tends to work poorly because it is dull when shouted in isolated
 250-character chunks.
 
-	--Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>
+	--Tim Mann
 	  http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html
 
 * * *
 
-Unix: To build the Zippy version of xboard, on most systems just do: 
+Unix: To build the Zippy version of xboard, on most systems just do:
 	configure --enable-zippy
 	make
 
@@ -70,7 +69,7 @@ are at the bottom of this file.
 
 If you have problems building or running Zippy, see the rest of the
 xboard documentation: INSTALL documents the configure program, while
-READ_ME and xboard.man (or xboard.doc) document xboard itself, and
+READ_ME and xboard.man (or xboard.txt) document xboard itself, and
 WinBoard.hlp documents WinBoard.  FAQ answers some frequently asked
 questions.  The file engine-intf.html contains some information about
 the interface between xboard/WinBoard and GNU Chess (or other chess
@@ -127,12 +126,12 @@ NEW OPTIONS
 	its sayings file.  You can alias this to whatever you like.
 	If XXX is censoring you, he is automatically removed from your
 	notify list.
-	
+
 	(3) If a player XXX in your notify list logs off, xboard sends
-	the command "farewell XXX" to ICS.  You can alias this to 
+	the command "farewell XXX" to ICS.  You can alias this to
 	whatever you like.  Note that the player is already gone, so
 	telling him something is futile.
-	
+
 	If zippyTalk is on, colorization in the ICS interaction
 	window, and the sounds corresponding to colors in that window,
 	do not work.  The reply feature captures the tells, etc.,
@@ -224,9 +223,12 @@ NEW OPTIONS
         does not work.  Instead, use the -zippyGameEnd option to have
         a string of several commands sent, with newlines in between.
         For example, you could give WinBoard the command line option
-          -zippyGameEnd='say thanks\nseek 5 0\nseek 2 12\n'
-        You could give xboard the command line option
-          -xrm '*zippyGameEnd: say thanks\nseek 5 0\nseek 2 12\n'
+          -zippyGameEnd=\"say thanks\\nseek 5 0\\nseek 2 12\\n\"
+        Note the extra backslashes: these are essential, because the
+        shell will strip them from the command before passing it to
+        XBoard, and XBoard needs to see the quotes (which would
+        otherwise be stripped by the shell as well), because only within
+        quotes it will recognize the \n as a linefeed.
 
   -zippyAdjourn True/False or -zadj/-xzadj
 	Zippy will allow its opponent to adjourn if this option is
@@ -261,7 +263,7 @@ NEW OPTIONS
         partner tells to be relayed to the engine with the ptell
         command.
 
-  -zippyMaxGames int 
+  -zippyMaxGames int
   -zippyReplayTimeout
         If zippyMaxGames > 0, Zippy will play at most the given number
 	of consecutive games against the same opponent.  Thereafter,
@@ -278,6 +280,15 @@ NEW OPTIONS
 	starts a game between Zippy and the first opponent to respond,
 	giving Zippy no choice about whether to accept or decline.
 
+  -zippyShortGame int
+        If zippyShortGame > 0, Zippy will decline all challenges
+	from an opponent that terminated a game before the given number
+	of ply (with an explanatory tell) until either someone else has
+	played or zippyReplayTimeout seconds have elapsed. Do not set
+	the number of moves to large; the number of ply during which
+	opponents can abort a game without rating change would be a
+	good setting. Default: zippyShortGame=0.
+
 =====================
 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
 =====================
@@ -348,6 +359,18 @@ obscure bugs are fixed in that version that affect starting a game in
 the middle (as with resuming from adjournments or switching opponents
 in a simul).
 
+As noted under -zippyPlay above, you should have -getMoveList on to
+ensure that the engine knows the game history after switching boards
+and thus handles draw by repetition and by the 50-move rule correctly.
+It should, however, also work to turn off this option to speed things
+up and reduce network bandwidth, if you don't mind the engine
+occasionally failing to see draw possibilities.  Unfortunately,
+though, with Crafty 18.3 (and probably other versions too) as the
+engine, users trying this have experienced Crafty crashes.  This looks
+to me like a Crafty bug, but I wasn't able to reproduce it, so it
+remains a mystery.
+
+
 ========
 EXAMPLES
 ========