I might add one thing. Make sure the server is active and that games are being played. (One way to do this is to put an additional test program up.) If there are an odd number of players you may get connected but not play a game right away.
I don't see anyone currently playing on CGOS, so I will put something up there for you to play against. - 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/
