Thanks Michael! Those are some great starting points.
On Jan 21, 2012, at 10:04 PM, Michael Petch wrote: > On 21/01/2012 7:41 PM, Mark Higgins wrote: >> Can anyone point me to some docs on how I can connect my bot to play on >> FIBS? I know gnubg did this, but I can't find the code. >> > > Howdy Mark, > > I don't think that GNUGB has ever directly supported FIBS. Usually the > people who interface GNUGB with FIBS do so through a program they write. > Usually they have a piece of software that sends and receives the data > to FIBS and then they pass the position into GNUBG using the command > line interface. Generally the standard way of doing this is run the > command line version and then connect standard input and output to your > Application that talks to FIBS. If you are a python programmer you can > interface with GNUBG directly. > > I'm unsure of anyone who has published such code, but there are some > starting points I can think of. There use to be a TKfibs program that > provided a GUI to Fibs. The graphics were done via TK, but the > communication layer was written in C. TKFibs although no longer > supported can be found here: > > http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/tcl/src/tkfibs/ > > I would look at tkfibs.c as a starting point. > > Most of the FIBS command/response interface is documented and can be > found here: http://www.fibs.com/fibs_interface.html > > > -- > Michael Petch > CApp::Sysware Consulting Ltd. > OpenPGP FingerPrint=D81C 6A0D 987E 7DA5 3219 6715 466A 2ACE 5CAE 3304 > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-gnubg mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg _______________________________________________ Bug-gnubg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg
