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Substitute

Overview

Substitute (1) is an application that relays the messages exchanged between a user and another application.

In my case, the other application is a chess engine, but it can be any application that has a dialog with the user using standard input and output.

(1) Maybe spy would have been a better name.

Usage

Substitute is a command line tool of the same kind (although much less sophisticated) as InBetween by Odd Gunnar Malin, or as UciFilter by Volker Annuss.

Instead of starting an engine, you start Substitute with the engine name specified, either as parameter, or in configuration file (substitute.ini). Substitute creates a file (substitute.log) where you can see the messages sent by the user and the one sent by the engine.

Build

Substitute is a Pascal program, for the Free Pascal Compiler. It has been tested only under Linux, but should work also under other environments.