[This is the third copy of a letter that I sent to tower@prep.ai.mit.edu.
I don't know what happened to the first three, but about three weeks
have now passed and I have not received any reply.  If I don`t receive
any reply this time either, I will have to try some other means to
reach you.] 


Hi!

I have written an Othello program with a number of features and I
would like to donate it to the FSF.  The program is almost ready for
its first beta release and it beats all other programs I have had
access to rather handily.  It is by no means as strong in its field as
GNU CHESS is, but on the other hand it is MUCH stronger than GNU GO.

The program is written to be as portable as possible between different
environments and so far there are interfaces to SUNVIEW and a scrolling
program for a dumb terminal.  An interface for curses(3X) is being
written and as soon as I am finished with the basic game, I will start
on an interface to X Windows.

If you are interested in this program, please send me an email and
tell me what I have to do (signing papers and so on). I will continue
to work on the program to make it stronger and more versatile, but I
think it can only do good to share it as it is now and let people get
the goodies as are finished.


Yours,
	/Inge Wallin


[Since I wrote the original letter, the program has been finished and
is ready for the first release.]


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| Inge Wallin               | Thus spake the master programmer:               |
|                           |      "After three days without programming,     |
| ingwa@isy.liu.se          |       life becomes meaningless."                |
|                           | Geoffrey James: The Tao of Programming.         |
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