Bruce Wilcox's Standard Computer Go Modem Protocol

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Hi,

I have a request that I hope someone out there will be able to fulfill.

Anyone else out there who is trying to write a go program might also be
interested in this, so you may want to read on, even if you can't help me.

protocol.Z (which describes Bruce Wilcox's Standard Computer Go Modem Protocol)
seems to have gone missing from the ftp directory Go/prog at igs.nuri.net

I think I might know why this unfortunate state of affairs has occurred*, but I
wonder if there is an alternative method (Bruce, are you there?) of obtaining
the file.

I also know about Bill Schubert's implementation of SGMP in cgoban and goDummy,
as well as Markus Enzenberger's code.  (I haven't yet investigated whether
the protocol.Z file is included in either of those implementations.  Bill?
Markus?  Either of you guys there?  Do your programs include the protocol.Z
file?)

Since SGMP is necessary for certain tourneys, I'm dismayed that its description
seems to have dissappeared from the igs archive.  This will certainly reduce 
the number of FOST entrants, won't it?  Anybody know how a budding computer go
programmer can obtain this file?  I don't want to take Bill's or Markus's code
from them wholesale, brings up the spectre of intellectual property, copyright,
licensing issues, etc.

I know that some of you have links to this formerly available ftp download in
your web pages.  Did you know that these links are broken?

Thanks in advance, if you can help me find the SGMP description file protocol.Z

Rich Brown
-- 

* By a sad coincidence, the filename "protocol.Z" was also chosen as the name 
for a file (presumably with different contents) in the directory Go/igs_clients
which used to describe the igs protocol.  Apparently, an effort to make that
file a secret has led to the disappearance of any file unfortunate enough to
have been named "protocol.Z" -- I most emphatically am NOT accusing anybody of
anything; I simply would like go program authors to have access to the SGMP
description.  (I do think that somebody did us go programmers a disservice by
removing Go/prog/protocol.Z but it was probably an unintentional error.
Anyway, the last thing I want to do is whine about it.  :-)