Auto login to FICS (or ICC) in Winboard and Xboard

[Sacolevas]

Hello,

I was able to setup xboard to be able to autologin in FICS by executing the command: xterm -e xboard -ics -icshost freechess.org -size medium (and I created a shortcut in the start menu, so it went pretty easy). Afterwards, I created a text file in my home folder called .icsrc with the information

username
password
commands

("username": my username in FICS
("password": my password in FICS)
("commands": Any other sequence of commands I want to setup in every session. For example, I always have "set seek 0")

... and it was ready to open my shortcut and the autologin was set correctly.


Now, my questions:

(a) (Windows) How can I produce the same effect of autologin using Winboard at the startup dialog? What file do I need to create or edit and which information I need to put in it?

(b) (Windows and Linux) What happens if I have two different accounts, one in FICS and one in ICC and I want to setup the autologin (of course, depending the Chess Server I choose in the startup dialog, or the command I typed in Linux)?

Thanks for your attention.

[H.G.Muller]

I never tried this, but the manual says there is an option -icslogon where you can specify the name of the file with the lgon script (default .icsrc for XBoard and ICS.ini for WinBoard). I expect this to work both on XBoard and WinBoard, as it is a back-end feature. You could include that option with the ICS line presented in the combobox of the startup dialog (e.g. using the Options->Add ICS menu item).