TLCS and Winboard

[hgm]

By looking at the code: it seems this should only work when the option -debug is also on, and when XBoard is in 'match mode' (which should be true in any tourney form). The code that creates the -serverFile is located just next to the code that changes the -debugFile because of a %d in its name.

[Guenther]

By looking at the code: it seems this should only work when the option -debug is also on, and when XBoard is in 'match mode' (which should be true in any tourney form). The code that creates the -serverFile is located just next to the code that changes the -debugFile because of a %d in its name.

Of course I had set debug on too. I retried it and still it only writes a normal debug file.
E.g.

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-mg 2 -debug -serverFile server.txt

[hgm]

Ah OK, I see. It creates the -serverFile at the same point as where it changes to another -debugfile. But it only reopens a new -debugfile when the name has changed because of expansion of a %d in it. When the normal -debugfile has a fixed name, it does none of this.

So what works is

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-mg 2 -debug -debugfile game%d.debug -serverFile server.txt

This initially creates a file game%d.debug, but when it starts the first game of the match it switches to writing on game1.debug, and at that point also creates server.txt. I just tried this, and it works. For the second game it should switch to writing on game2.debug, and create a new server.txt, overwriting the old one.