Thank you a lot for the detail. "H.G. Muller" wrote: > ICS have a time-out period (for FICS this is 1 hour, IIRC), and > disconnect you if that expires without you giving any commands. They > know immediately when they disconnect you, however. XBoard has an option > -keepAlive M , which sends a "date" command to the ICS every M minutes. > If M < 60 this should prevent FICS from ever disconnecting you.
Don't see this option in the man page of xboard 4.8.0, nor in its options dialogue. Svetlana
