[computer-go] Flummoxed with GTP

[Peter Drake]

Orego supports GTP, but for some reason today I can't get it to work  
with Goban, glGo, or GoGui. It runs fine and quickly from the command  
line, responding to GTP commands:

$ /Users/user/Documents/go/xcode/Orego/build/Release/Orego
name
= Orego

genmove black
= E5

quit
=

When I invoke the same program from any of the GTP front ends,  
though, it never responds to the name command and is apparently  
crunching away. I'm at a loss to imagine why the behavior of the  
program would change depending on whence it is invoked. Can anyone  
think of any sense in which sending a command like "name" from a  
front end is different from doing it manually?

Peter Drake
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Lewis & Clark College
http://www.lclark.edu/~drake/