[Retros] Retro programming

[Alain BROBECKER]

Dear retro fans,

I've written a small C program that takes as input an
8 white pawns list, and returns the number of captures
as well as some infos of the pawns' origins.
At the moment it requires *8* pawns, and you must
use it from the command line (do$ or else).

Below is an example from a simple "rotate the board"
problem i just submitted to a magazine and which was
partly composed using this program:

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C:\baah\c\Pawns>8pawns c4 e4 e5 f2 f3 f4 f5 g4
Number of captures>=12
.........
.........
.........
.....bO..
...a.OOO.
......O..
......f..
.........
8/8/8/4PP2/2P1PPP1/5P2/5P2/K6k

Pc4: a.......  a.......
Pe4: ..cde.g.  ..cde.gh
Pe5: .b......  .b......
Pf2: .....f..  .....f..
Pf3: ....e.g.  ..cde.gh
Pf4: ...de.gh  ..cde.gh
Pf5: ..cde.gh  ..cde.gh
Pg4: ....e.gh  ..cde.gh
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Feel free to use, modify, improve...
It can be found at:
  http://abrobecker.free.fr/tools/8pawns.zip

Did anyone already made such a routine for
less pawns and/or for mixed B&W pawns?
I know there's one in Retractor, but sourcecode
is not available.
  
Best regards,
Alain (off for 2 weeks holidays! :)


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