Re: (no subject)

[Arturus Magi]

Rich Chase wrote:

> 
> I suppose many of the GNU projects are portable to various platforms,
> including but not limited to Cygwin and minGW. A few are actually
> portable to native win32 without such kluges (not intended to insult
> Cygwin and minGW, products of genius -- just pointing out that
> Winblows has to be kluged to run posix software).
> 
> Anyway, I didn't want to take the time to read documentation, so I did
> a quick search on sourceforge for a native Win project for chess.
> That way I could SEEM helpful without doing much work ;~)

Pointing her to the Cygwin project (and it's various offspring)
probably would have been the best thing to have done.  A Cygwin port of
GNU Chess and a Cygwin/X port of XBoard are part of the cygwin-ports
Sourceforge project.