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Subject: Re: Question about .amyrc & some notes

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 17:52:53 03/23/00

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On March 23, 2000 at 20:35:52, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On March 23, 2000 at 20:17:05, Pete Galati wrote:
>
>>I am unable to create a .amyrc file, Win98 also wants a filename, not just a
>>file extention.  So I tried amy.rc instead, but I don't think Amy can see it
>>because when I change the hashtable size, I see no difference in what Amy
>>reports when in text mode.  It's not much of a concern with the hashtable sizes
>>because I could do the in the command line I guess, but I wanted to specify the
>>tablebase path.  So, what should I call the file?
>
>I've made a .amyrc under Win98 without problems. I opened Notepad and added the
>commands needed and saved. Then I opened a DOS window and renamed it from
>.amyrc.txt to .amyrc.
>
>Best wishes...
>Mogens

Thanks, I never would have guessed that Dos could do that and Windows couldn't,
at first I thought it was because of my trying to rename it from the File
Manager, so I tried the Explorer, and still no luck.  But the Dos Prompt worked,
wow.  Now hashtable changes work & Amy knows where my tablebases are!  Thanks.

Pete



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