Hi Ryan, Thanks for your report. Yes, it seems the same problem that was found a couple of years ago. Could you please indicate the version of XBoard and operating system that you are using? I don't think it will make a big difference, but it can be helpful.
Cheers, Antonio On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 8:04 PM Ryan Sarson <rsar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello! > > I have the same issue as John Cheetham, from his post a couple of > years ago. The issue persists with the latest build I could find, > 6.2.5e. I use both Scid and Xboard and, in both cases, they appear to > hang when trying to play a game against gnuchessu. When running > gnuchessu from the command line, the appearance of 'White (1) : " > requires at least a newline to be entered before the 'uci' command > will work as expected. > > It seems related to the removal of the 'showprompt' and 'ShowPrompt()' > lines from main.cc and frontend/engine.cc from 6.2.4 but I do not know > enough about C programming to fix it - other things break if i just > add the deleted lines back in. > > Ryan > >
