I am having trouble connecting to CGOS. I have Windows/Vista, and I am
trying to follow the instructions on page <http://cgos.boardspace.net/>
http://cgos.boardspace.net/.
First: after downloading a tclkit from <http://www.equi4.com/>
www.equi4.com, I renamed the executable as tcl.exe, and then ran it. This
produced something like a Unix shell window. I presume that I am supposed to
run the cgos script in there. Is that right?
Second: the instructions imply that if I just run the script then I will get
something self-explanatory. But when I do so it only works to a point:
(Pebbles) 1 % cgosGtp.exe
cgosGtp 0.98 alpha - engine client for CGOS Windows-x86 by Don Dailey
Usage: C:/Users/Brian/DOCUME~1/Go/Pebbles/cgosGtp.exe/main.tcl -c
CONFIG_FILE
-k KILL_FILE -p PLAYER_FIRST -s
-c specified name of config file - this is MANDATORY
-k sepcifies a file to create which will stop client after
current game
-p specifies which player plays first game
-s display a sample configuration file to stdout and exit
Now I should try the "-s" option, right? So I do, and I get the same
response:
(Pebbles) 1 % cgosGtp.exe -s
cgosGtp 0.98 alpha - engine client for CGOS Windows-x86 by Don Dailey
Usage: C:/Users/Brian/DOCUME~1/Go/Pebbles/cgosGtp.exe/main.tcl -c
CONFIG_FILE
-k KILL_FILE -p PLAYER_FIRST -s
-c specified name of config file - this is MANDATORY
-k sepcifies a file to create which will stop client after
current game
-p specifies which player plays first game
-s display a sample configuration file to stdout and exit
Third: I dug through archives and found what I thought might be a valid
configuration file. Its contents are shown below:
# config file for testing various version of Pebbles
# ------------------------------------------------
%section server
server cgos.boardspace.net
port 6867
%section player
name Pebbles
password mypwd
invoke ./Release/Pebbles.exe
priority 1
Now I really am not sure what the specified name and password mean. Is this
the name of the program on CGOS? Or is this the login name of the account
that is registered on CGOS?
Fourth: I looked for instructions about how to get an account on CGOS, but I
did not find any. Am I supposed to create an account on boardspace.net, and
use that account?
Fifth: I tried to use the supplied config file, and I got a peculiar error
message:
(Pebbles) 6 % cgosGtp.exe -c cgos-config.txt -k kill.txt -p Pebbles
child process exited abnormally
Also, a dialog box titled "Error in TclKit" popped up with the following
message:
this isn't a Tk applicationbad window path name "cgos-config.txt"
I probably should have asked just one question: how do I get my program on
CGOS? But then someone would have pointed me to
<http://cgos.boardspace.net/> http://cgos.boardspace.net/. :-)
Background info: I am using GoGui as front end, and I have implemented
enough GTP to play go using GoGui. Is that enough for CGOS also?
Help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Brian
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