Author: Steve Coladonato
Date: 14:01:46 07/14/02
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On July 14, 2002 at 14:25:09, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: >On July 14, 2002 at 12:42:31, Steve Coladonato wrote: > >>On July 13, 2002 at 14:17:54, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: >> >>>On July 13, 2002 at 12:44:05, Will Singleton wrote: >>> >>>>From what I can see, CA 6.1 exports game bases in a pseudo-pgn format. Does >>>>anyone know of a program which will read these and output standard pgn? >>>> >>>>Will >>> >>>If it is the special escape strings, you can turn it off with unmarking >>>tools\options\general\use ca markup in pgn. >>> >>>For other problems you can use the extract32 tool. I guess you will find it on >>>most download pages. >>> >>>oddGM >> >>The biggest problem I have is that CA exports a "Z0" symbol in the pgn file. I >>don't know what it is but SCID doesn't like it. Do you happen to know what this >>symbol is? Unmarking the "use ca markup in pgn" option doesn't remove it. >> >>Steve > >Hi. > >I don't think I have seen this, do you have an sample? > >Anyway after you turn off the marker you have to restart CA to get it to work. > >I have made a command for pgn-files in the explorer assosiation box so I can run >a converter tool just by right clicking on them and select a convert command. > >Here is the cmd file that is running: > >del tmp0tmp.pgn >d:\Utility\PGNBeauty.exe %1 tmp0tmp.pgn >del %1 >d:\utility\Extract32.exe -a%1 tmp0tmp.pgn >del tmp0tmp.pgn > > >PGNBeaty is just a little tool to remove unneeded pgn headers (empty headers). > >I run it whenever I shall share some pgn-files with other's. > > >I took some heavy gamefiles with comment and variation but could not find your >"Z0" in any of them. > >Odd Gunnar If you export the "Elite" database to PGN format, you should get a "Z0" symbol at the following game. Error reading move in game Polgar Judit (GM) (HUN) - Granda Zuniga Julio E (PER), 1995: Kh8 There are many games in the file that have that "Z0" symbol. I didn't restart CA after turning off the marker so that may be where the problem is. I'll check it and get back to you. (I'm mainly running Linux and have to reboot to Windows). Steve
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