1This is a sample zippy.lines file for xboard/WinBoard 4.0.4 or later. 2Text before the first caret, like this text, is a comment. 3^ 4Here is the first saying. Sayings are separated by caret characters, 5like the character that appears on the next line. 6^ 7Here is the second saying. 8^ 9Here is saying #3. Note you don't need newlines before the caret characters.^ 10Here is saying #4 -- note that it's okay for a saying 11to extend across more than one line. The line breaks are ignored. 12^Saying #5: You don't need newlines after the caret characters either, 13but don't put two carets in a row. 14^ 15Our sixth bit of wisdom is that you can use ASCII NUL characters 16(character code \000) instead of carets, but carets are easier to deal with 17in most text editors. In version 4.0.3 and earlier, carets did not work; 18only NULs were allowed. 19^ 20The seventh thing you should remember is that any saying more than 250 21characters long will not be used. Therefore, because this saying is 22more than 250 characters long, it will never be used. This is an 23extra sentence to make the saying more than 250 characters long so 24that the previous sentence will be true. 25^ 26The eighth item to know is that when you are testing, you had better have 27several valid sayings in your file; for various reasons, having too few 28sayings can cause Zippy to get into an endless loop, or to be very slow. 29^ 30As the ninth and final saying, let me add that you need a caret 31at the end of the file; any junk after the last caret is ignored. 32^ 33 34