Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 12:46:00 11/17/98
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On November 17, 1998 at 12:57:04, Hannu Wegner wrote:
>On November 16, 1998 at 17:40:25, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On November 16, 1998 at 17:21:45, Amir Ban wrote:
>>
>>>On November 16, 1998 at 17:09:05, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>
>>>>On November 16, 1998 at 13:16:59, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On November 16, 1998 at 12:59:11, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>
>>>>>>When I asked Thorsten to send me the files saved by Chess Tiger, he discovered
>>>>>>that there were NO saved files. I cannot even know what happened before the
>>>>>>match stopped.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>While I admit that Thorsten goes too far sometimes, in this case there are
>>>>>>simple facts nobody can deny.
>>>>>
>>>>>Just a caveat:
>>>>>
>>>>>If Thorsten rebooted the machine before the OS file buffers were flushed, the
>>>>>missing game scores might have been saved by the programs but simply had no
>>>>>chance to make it to any permanent location on the disk ...
>>>>>
>>>>>=Ernst=
>>>>
>>>>Thanks for the tip, Ernst, but
>>>>1) I don't think Thorsten rebooted the computers in such a way. Tiger did not
>>>>crash, so there was no need to do so.
>>>>2) The operating system on Tiger's side was clean (simple DOS).
>>>>3) there were several games played, meaning that the buffers had several hours
>>>>to get flushed...
>>>>
>>>>It is something else.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Christophe
>>>
>>>Perhaps it is this:
>>>
>>>I see that Chess Genius running as slave against J5 always saves games with the
>>>same name (MATCH.255), so only the last game remains. SSDF also reports
>>>something like this. Seems like the master should invent a different name each
>>>time, and the J5 autoplayer doesn't.
>>>
>>>Amir
>>
>>
>>OK. I am going to ask Thorsten to start a match again and to look for the saved
>>game(s).
>>
>>Thorsten is the only person, to my knowledge, to have both Chess Tiger 11.7 and
>>Junior5.
>>
>>It would be interesting to have at least another independant tester, as the
>>problem seems to be machine-dependant. Who could do this?
>
>I could do this:-))!!
>I wrote somewhere else allready that it would be a plesure to test your Chess
>Tiger 11.7. I even would buy it when it is avalable somewhere. I also would like
>to test the chess 232-pc-board-compability. Do you plan to support pc-boards?
>
>Best greetings,
>Hannu Wegner
No I don't, because Tiger will be released as an additional engine for Rebel,
and will benefit from Rebel's pc board support.
Thanks for your offer to test against Junior 5. In fact I have found somebody
who has already volunteered to do it. I will maybe ask you to help us if the
first tester does not have the bug. OK?
Thanks anyway.
Christophe
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