Re: Bruce Wilcox's Standard Computer Go Modem Protocol

[David Fotland <fotland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can get a copy from the Many Faces of Go web page

www.netcom.com/~fotland/manyfaces.html

David


At 12:18 PM 8/12/98 -0500, rbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>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.  :-)
>
>