How do I use ICC timestamp or FICS timeseal with XBoard?
First, get the appropriate version of timestamp or timeseal for your machine from ftp.chessclub.com or ftp.freechess.org. Second, be sure that you can connect using XBoard without timestamp/timeseal. Third, be sure that you can connect using timestamp/timeseal without XBoard. See the help files on ICC and FICS or ask people online if you have problems. If you are in a completely ordinary situation, where your machine is directly on the Internet and you can connect to ICC or FICS without timestamp/timeseal using just the command “xboard -ics” or “xboard -ics -icshost freechess.
First, be sure that you can connect using XBoard without timestamp/timeseal. Second, be sure that you can connect using timestamp/timeseal without XBoard. See the help files on ICC and FICS or ask people online if you have problems. If you are in a completely ordinary situation, where your machine is directly on the Internet and you can connect to ICC or FICS without timestamp/timeseal using just the command “xboard -ics” or “xboard -ics -icshost freechess.org”, change that command to one of the following: xboard -ics -icshost 207.99.5.190 -icshelper timestamp xboard -ics -icshost 164.58.253.13 -icshelper timeseal If you have a firewall between your machine and the ICS, see topic [D.19] . If you normally have to use the “/icscomm” command line option on xboard to log into a second machine, and then telnet to ICC or FICS from there, you are going to have to run the Unix version of timestamp or timeseal on the second machine. (If the second machine is not running Unix, you are out of luc
