Nice! I've used socat with TCP sockets, but I forgot it was so versatile and can work to connect a pair of pipes to a serial port too.
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 1:24 AM Folkert van Heusden <[email protected]> wrote: > Got it working with a script invoking socat. > Works very well! > > > Long long ago, to do something like what you need, I think I used to use > a > > little program I called "relay" as the chess engine. It did nothing but > > relay bytes from the pipes that xboard created to talk to it, to and from > > something else, like a serial port. I think the implementation was just a > > shell script that started two instances of "cat -u" or the like. > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 1:28???AM Folkert van Heusden < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > TL;DR: xboard -fUCI -icscomm /dev/ttyUSB0 fails with a "POLYGLOT: > > > > uci_open(): Not a UCI engine.". > > > > > > Never mind: I just realised icscom is for talking to ICS servers, not > > > for generic chess programs. >
