
zseal
open source client for FICS Timeseal v2 for Linux/Unix systems

(C) 2016 Felipe Bergo (Pulga @ FICS), fbergo at gmail dot com
https://github.com/fbergo/zseal

Timeseal is a protocol for network lag reporting and compensation used by the FICS chess
server (freechess.org). Version 2 of the protocol provides better delay stats as the server
actively pings the client periodically. FICS's FTP repository was taken down a few years
ago in one of the server host changes or hard disk crashes (I forget which) and was never
put back on. Since then, there has been nowhere to download a trustable timeseal client
for Linux systems.

The protocol was deduced from Marcello Mamino's openseal (an implementation of timeseal v1)
and the java timeseal v2 implementation in Raptor by cday - https://github.com/Raptor-Fics-Interface/Raptor

zseal is released under the MIT license (you can use this software as you please; the authors
are not liable anything the software does to you or your stuff; derived works must
retain the copyright notice)

To compile:

type 'make', the binary zseal will be generated in the current directory

Using/Installing:

To run from the command line:

  zseal [host [port]]

  if host is omitted, the default "freechess.org" is used
  if host is given but port is omitted, the default 5000 is used

  zseal -v or zseal --version will print the version and exit.

To use with eboard:

   local installation for a single user:
   cp zseal ~/.eboard/timeseal.Linux
   
   On non-Linux systems, eboard expects the executable to be called timeseal.SYSTEM,
   SYSTEM can be obtained with the command "uname -s"

   for a system-wide installation, copy zseal to /usr/share/eboard/timeseal.SYSTEM or any
   of the other directories eboard searches ( see http://www.bergo.eng.br/eboard/doc.php?d=3 )

To use with xboard:

  xboard -ics -icshost freechess.org -icsport 5000 -icshelper ./zseal

  (replace ./zseal with wherever you want to leave zseal in)

