Subj : Re: more chess
To   : Jasen.Betts@xspamp42.f531.n640.z3.f
From : Klaus Meinhard
Date : Thu Dec 06 2001 12:46 am

From: "Klaus Meinhard" <K_Meinhard@hotmail.com>

Jasen,

I think I have now wrestled my new WinXP machine to the point were I can savely 
breathe again.

I have played around a bit with your chess batch, and I am impressed:

You can take up a game where you left it. You can undo your draws or restart, 
all with simple keystrokes or commands.

Small niggles, easily fixed: I got a "missing parentheses" error from line 39 
(second line of the knight sprite). All sprites were 1 column too small, 
leaving a %bg column after each square.

Future enhancements, if you seek a challenge: manually set up the board (for 
chess problems) with figures of your choice. A "restart" should then fall back 
to that position.

If it's alright with you, I 'd like to put CHESS on my Batch of the Month page 
(as a small christmas presence to all 4DOS fans :-))

Thanks a lot for a great program,

--
*Klaus Meinhard*
07ø36'57" East  53ø07'52" North
Author of the 4XBTM batch collection at http://www.4xbtm.de











<Jasen.Betts@xspamp42.f531.n640.z3.fidonet.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:60a359.813483@mach2.ab.ca...
> Hi Steve.
>
> 29-Nov-01 10:54:20, Steve wrote to Rodney.Hester@xspamp11.f45.n396.z1.
>
>  S> If (as Rodney interprets it) you mean by "truncate" to remove ALL
>  S> of its content, an even easier way i
>
> By truncate I mean "cut the end off".
>
>  S> If you intended to start writing to a file at a specific position,
>  S> overwriting whateve was beyond it, you can use @fileseek, followed
>  S> b its original end, the original information might be left over...
>
> I want to keep the start but lose the end of the file.
> most other languages with %@fileseek like capabilities can do that.
> I've given up trying, I now write a tag and a pointer to the last
record of
> the file saying where the file was meant to end when the program sees
this
> it rewinds back to the record I intended to be last.
>
>  -=> Bye <=-
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