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Hello,
I use winboard for playing on chess servers. There is a small problem with chessanytime.com. When I use the F2 through F12 functions keys, the "$" is added before the command.
For instance, accepting a challenge is the F3 key. If I type F3, Winboard sends "$accept" instead of "accept" and the server says it is an invalid command of course. So I have to type manually the word "accept" in the box.
Is there a tweak or workaroung for this ?
Thank you.

Thanks for your comments

Philippe Etard wrote:Thanks for your comments

Apply Occam's razor on this phenonemon. I guess the most simple explanation is that no one knows.


vp

Maybe this debug file will help.
I have marked in bold the alias command Winboard sends to the server. It seems the server does not like the alias or the $. Allesandro Scotti should know about it.

WinBoard 4.2.7
Reset(1, 0) from gameMode 0
recognized 'normal' (-1) as variant normal
GameEnds(0, (null), 2)
<ICS: \012\015Welcome to EICS !\012\012\015\015Complaints and support to : support@chessanytime.com\012\015Server location: France\012\015Server name : www.chessanytime.com\012\012\015\015If you are not a registered player enter the login name "guest"\012\015login:
>ICS: guest\015\012
<ICS: \012\015\012\015Created temporary login 'guestptsk'\012\015*********** WELCOME ON EICS (www.chessanytime.com) ***********\012\015Eics%
>ICS: alias $ @\015\012$set interface WinBoard 4.2.7\015\012$iset startpos 1\015\012$iset ms 1\015\012$iset nohighlight 1\015\012$iset lock 1\015\012$style 12\015\012
<ICS: \012\015alias: Command not found.\012\015Eics%
<ICS: \012\015$set: Command not found.\012\015Eics% \012\015$iset: Command not found.\012\015Eics% \012\015$iset: Command not found.\012\015Eics% \012\015$iset: Command not found.\012\015Eics% \012\015$iset: Command not found.\012\015Eics% \012\015$style: Command not found.\012\015Eics%

...............................................................................................

>ICS: $
>ICS: resign\015\012
<ICS: \012\015$resign: Command not found.\012\015Eics%

Philippe Etard wrote:...It seems the server does not like the alias or the $. ...

<ICS: \012\015alias: Command not found.\012\015Eics%

<ICS: \012\015$set: Command not found.\012\015Eics% ...

$style: Command not found.\012\015Eics%
...
<ICS: \012\015$resign: Command not found.

And it also seems it doesn't understand "set", "style" and "resign".

I took only a short look at the site and the FAQ there. Sorry the possibly stupid question but are you sure it supports xboard? I couldn't find anything about it over there.

Volker

Volker Pittlik wrote:

Philippe Etard wrote:...It seems the server does not like the alias or the $. ...

I took only a short look at the site and the FAQ there. Sorry the possibly stupid question but are you sure it supports xboard? I couldn't find anything about it over there.

Volker

A couple of months ago, it supported the xboard commands. Something changes in the program and I can still use winboard.

Chessanytime and jeu.echecs.com seem to belong to the same people. I put below a *working* example of jeu.echecs.com. Normally these 2 servers require to play with a browser and an applet java.

>ICS: guest\015\012
<ICS: \377\373\001
<WILL ECHO >DO ECHO <ICS: \012\015"guest5681" is not a registered name. You may use this name to play unrated games.\012\015(After logging in, do "help register" for more info on how to register.)\012\015\012\015Press return to enter the FICS as "guest5681":
<WILL ECHO >ICS: \015\012
<ICS: \377\374\001
<WONT ECHO >DONT ECHO <ICS: Have a look at http://jeu.echecs.com/ for information\012\015\012\015--------------------------------------------------------------------------\012\015Do 'help' for a list of the commands that are available.\012\015--------------------------------------------------------------------------\012\015\012\015\012\015Newcomers:\012\015 type 'help' for a complete list of the commands that are implemented.\012\015 type 'help command' to get a short description of a command.\012\015\012\015 You can get your own ICS-User-ID. Do 'help register' to find out how.\012\015\012\015You are the 16712234th player visiting this server.\012\015\012\015gics%
<WONT ECHO >ICS: alias $ @\015\012$set interface WinBoard 4.2.7\015\012$iset startpos 1\015\012$iset ms 1\015\012$iset nohighlight 1\015\012$iset lock 1\015\012$style 12\015\012
<ICS: Alias set.\012\015gics%
<ICS: Style 12 set.\012\015gics% No such variable name startpos.\012\015gics% No such variable name ms.\012\015gics% No such variable name nohighlight.\012\015gics% No such variable name lock.\012\015gics% Style 12 set.\012\015gics%