[XBoard-devel] Mac usage with ICC and timestamp

[Elwyn Arnell]

I have been unable to get xboard to work with ICC and timestamp on Mac (Lion). ICC does not publish a Mac timestamp (note - the xboard docs should be corrected in this respect) but there was a build of 4.6.2 here: http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=50428 by Darklord42 that said it had an embedded timestamp.

Unfortunately, when I installed that build, attempting to connect to ICC via 

xboard -ics -icshost chessclub.com -icshelper /Applications/Xboard/timestamp

just gives the error "timestamp: Permission denied" even though timestamp file has permissions -rwxr-xr-x . That timestamp, however, does work normally called alone from the command line via ./timestamp 207.99.83.228 5000

Can someone indicate how to get xboard on a Mac running with timestamp on ICC?