pxboard does seem pretty outdated. It never had wide usefulness. It looks like something I wrote back in the Usenet era when people would sometimes post games or lists of games in netnews articles, and sometimes I wanted to pipe a copy of the article into "xboard -ncp -lgf -" and return to rn. Obviously since it's only a 2-line script, anyone with some shell scripting knowledge could code up the same thing if needed. So I would be good with removing it and its documentation.
Along the same lines, should we remove cmail? I wouldn't be surprised if no one has used it for years. On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 7:33 AM <h.g.mul...@hccnet.nl> wrote: > pxboard is a shell script that, according to the comments in it, can be > used to let XBoard display a game through a command > > cat GAMEFILE | pxboard > > I thought this was totally obsolete. For one, the smae can be achieved by > simply typing the shorter > > xboard GAMEFILE > > But perhaps the intended use is when the game isn't supplied by a simple > cat command on a file, but by some other method. Like output of a mailing > program. > > But nowadays almost no one would use mailing programs from the command > line. If they get sent games by e-mail (does anyone still do that???) he > would probably copy-paste those from his e-mail client (or from a webmail > or other www page) into an xboard instance he started separately. If games > are in a PGN file, he could double-click that file to launch XBoard with > that file as argument, as the PGN mime type gets associated with XBoard on > install. > > I don't know what was the original idea for installing pxboard. Should it > be moved to $bindir and be given executable mode, so that 'pxboard' would > work as a command on the command-line? If so, "make install" should do > that, but no longer does. > > Conclusion: either the Makefile should be adapted to do that, or all > references to pxboard should be removed from the man pages. > > > > > > Op ma., nov. 8, 2021 om 01:43, Tim Mann <t...@tim-mann.org> schreef: > > Ubuntu probably chose not to package pxboard. You can get it here: > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/xboard.git/plain/pxboard > > On Sun, Nov 7, 2021 at 4:39 PM Richard Trahan <doctortra...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > The man page for xboard describes piping with the pxboard script. > > pxboard is not on my system. I am running Ubuntu 18.04. > >
