Re: Chess board now a problem :(

2002-02-08 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: wait a minute... xboard doesn't overwrite existing files when renaming a previous game save by the looks... yes... really helpful. No warning or anything... Yeah, a pet peeve of mine. It just appends!!! The maintainer of xboard is really

Re: Chess board now a problem :(

2002-02-08 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > > wait a minute... xboard doesn't overwrite existing files when > > renaming a previous game save by the looks... yes... really helpful. > > No warning or anything... > > Yeah, a pet peeve of mine. It just appends!!! The maintainer of xboard is

Chess board now a problem :(

2002-02-07 Thread Allan Rae
I have installed skak and its fonts. xboard and gnuchess -- from mdk-8.1 but there's no gnuchess.lang file, whatever the hell that is, and so xboard can't do anything useful 'cos gnuchessx is effectively broken! I could chase around but I've had enough screwing around for one day so can someone

Re: Chess board now a problem :(

2002-02-07 Thread Allan Rae
stupid installations permissions problem now I have a demo.fen but lyx isn't doing anything -- a file containing only an external inset results in no output. demo.asc (from demo.fen) contains: +--+ 8|[|E|v|e|n|t| wait a minute... xboard doesn't overwrite

Re: Chess board now a problem :(

2002-02-07 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 04:36:57PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: stupid installations permissions problem now I have a demo.fen but lyx isn't doing anything -- a file containing only an external inset results in no output. demo.asc (from demo.fen) contains: +--+

Re: Chess board now a problem :(

2002-02-07 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: [...] All I want now is for it to work with pdfscreen which I have decided I hate. Good luck!! No, refuses to play ball with pdfscreen. Will demo with separate file. Looks pretty good now. Hmmm... if I hadn't just shutdown the laptop I'd be

Chess board now a problem :(

2002-02-07 Thread Allan Rae
I have installed skak and its fonts. xboard and gnuchess -- from mdk-8.1 but there's no gnuchess.lang file, whatever the hell that is, and so xboard can't do anything useful 'cos gnuchessx is effectively broken! I could chase around but I've had enough screwing around for one day so can someone

Re: Chess board now a problem :(

2002-02-07 Thread Allan Rae
stupid installations permissions problem now I have a demo.fen but lyx isn't doing anything -- a file containing only an external inset results in no output. demo.asc (from demo.fen) contains: +--+ 8|[|E|v|e|n|t| wait a minute... xboard doesn't overwrite

Re: Chess board now a problem :(

2002-02-07 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 04:36:57PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > > stupid installations permissions problem > > > now I have a demo.fen but lyx isn't doing anything -- a file > containing only an external inset results in no output. > > demo.asc (from demo.fen) contains: > >

Re: Chess board now a problem :(

2002-02-07 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: [...] > > All I want now is for it to work with pdfscreen which I have decided I > > hate. > > Good luck!! No, refuses to play ball with pdfscreen. Will demo with separate file. Looks pretty good now. Hmmm... if I hadn't just shutdown the laptop I'd