Brian, I hope some people here will help you because I am limited in my ability to help with windows - I just know that it does work and there are bunch of windows go program running on cgos.
I'll answer what I can here. You don't need an account. Just make up a name and a password less than 18 character (I think, or is it 16?) The first time you successfully log on to cgos, your name will be associated with your password so that nobody else will accidental use the same name. That's the only purpose for having the password. The name is what appears on the CGOS page and uniquely identifies your program. So you will need to make sure it's not the same name as another program. Also, I think you will have better success using the tclkit designed for the console, you are trying to use the TK version, which is for creating nice GUI applications and this is not a GUI. So find a tclkit for your platform called something like "tclsh" or similar. I have heard that the TK version can work, but I had trouble with it when I tried to make it work on my wife's windows computer as a test. If it runs in gogui, I'm pretty sure CGOS is covered. I tried to limit myself to the minimal subset of gtp commands so that it would work on CGOS with minimal problems from the GTP end of things. Beyond this, I think there will be people here who run windows and will be happy to help you get this working. If someone is willing to document well what windows users need to do, as well as what the pitfalls are, I would be happy to add a section to the web page to make this whole process easier for windows users. I think it's easier for unix because I basically designed it on a linux system and thus windows users suffer needlessly. - Don -----Original Message----- From: Brian Sheppard <sheppar...@aol.com> Reply-To: computer-go <computer-go@computer-go.org> To: computer-go@computer-go.org Subject: [computer-go] Can't get on CGOS Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:14:00 -0400 I am having trouble connecting to CGOS. I have Windows/Vista, and I am trying to follow the instructions on page http://cgos.boardspace.net/. First: after downloading a tclkit from www.equi4.com, I renamed the executable as tcl.exe, and then ran it. This produced something like a Unix shell window. I presume that I am supposed to run the cgos script in there. Is that right? Second: the instructions imply that if I just run the script then I will get something self-explanatory. But when I do so it only works to a point: (Pebbles) 1 % cgosGtp.exe cgosGtp 0.98 alpha - engine client for CGOS Windows-x86 by Don Dailey Usage: C:/Users/Brian/DOCUME~1/Go/Pebbles/cgosGtp.exe/main.tcl -c CONFIG_FILE -k KILL_FILE -p PLAYER_FIRST -s -c specified name of config file - this is MANDATORY -k sepcifies a file to create which will stop client after current game -p specifies which player plays first game -s display a sample configuration file to stdout and exit Now I should try the "-s" option, right? So I do, and I get the same response: (Pebbles) 1 % cgosGtp.exe -s cgosGtp 0.98 alpha - engine client for CGOS Windows-x86 by Don Dailey Usage: C:/Users/Brian/DOCUME~1/Go/Pebbles/cgosGtp.exe/main.tcl -c CONFIG_FILE -k KILL_FILE -p PLAYER_FIRST -s -c specified name of config file - this is MANDATORY -k sepcifies a file to create which will stop client after current game -p specifies which player plays first game -s display a sample configuration file to stdout and exit Third: I dug through archives and found what I thought might be a valid configuration file. Its contents are shown below: # config file for testing various version of Pebbles # ------------------------------------------------ %section server server cgos.boardspace.net port 6867 %section player name Pebbles password mypwd invoke ../Release/Pebbles.exe priority 1 Now I really am not sure what the specified name and password mean. Is this the name of the program on CGOS? Or is this the login name of the account that is registered on CGOS? Fourth: I looked for instructions about how to get an account on CGOS, but I did not find any. Am I supposed to create an account on boardspace.net, and use that account? Fifth: I tried to use the supplied config file, and I got a peculiar error message: (Pebbles) 6 % cgosGtp.exe -c cgos-config.txt -k kill.txt -p Pebbles child process exited abnormally Also, a dialog box titled "Error in TclKit" popped up with the following message: this isn't a Tk applicationbad window path name "cgos-config.txt" I probably should have asked just one question: how do I get my program on CGOS? But then someone would have pointed me to http://cgos.boardspace.net/. :-) Background info: I am using GoGui as front end, and I have implemented enough GTP to play go using GoGui. Is that enough for CGOS also? Help would be appreciated. Thanks, Brian _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
