Re: [gnugo-devel] Aya

[aquarius]

Hi,

on Thu, 29 Apr 2004 Gunnar wrote:

> Now there is an annoyance with Wine when running in GTP mode. When
> starting it writes "Invoking /usr/lib/wine/wine.bin -- Aya.exe --mode
> gtp ..." to stdout, garbling the first GTP response from Aya.

> A possible workaround for the problem above is to modify line 145 of
> twogtp.pike to say
>
>             protocol_version = answer[0] ? 2 : (int) answer[1];

Why not simply send the very first GTP command twice instead and throw away
it's response. This way you could get rid of any 'garbage' in the GTP-stream
coming from misrouted copyright notes etc. :)

This would improve robustness for any GTP Program IMHO.

Happy go - ing
   aquarius