Re: icscom fails for uci

[Tim Mann]

Nice! I've used socat with TCP sockets, but I forgot it was so versatile and can work to connect a pair of pipes to a serial port too.

On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 1:24 AM Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com> wrote:

Got it working with a script invoking socat.
Works very well!

> Long long ago, to do something like what you need, I think I used to use a
> little program I called "relay" as the chess engine. It did nothing but
> relay bytes from the pipes that xboard created to talk to it, to and from
> something else, like a serial port. I think the implementation was just a
> shell script that started two instances of "cat -u" or the like.
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 1:28???AM Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>
> wrote:
>
> > > TL;DR: xboard -fUCI -icscomm /dev/ttyUSB0 fails with a "POLYGLOT:
> > > uci_open(): Not a UCI engine.".
> >
> > Never mind: I just realised icscom is for talking to ICS servers, not
> > for generic chess programs.