Author: Peter Fendrich
Date: 06:17:06 03/02/04
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I don't think that it steals memory from the opponent or do you mean disk space? Terra produces either one and only one logfile that grows or one new logfile for each game or no logfile at all, depending of the users settings. Anyway, I think that the solution is to let the user set logfile on/off. I've found logfiles extremely useful when someone reports an error that I can't repeat in my own environment. Just ask for the logfile... That happens quite often. For instance when different GUI's are using the protocols differently. /Peter On March 02, 2004 at 05:43:25, Uri Blass wrote: >Movei of today saves all it's games with slightly more information in a log >file. >Every game is only few kbytes but if somebody play thousands of games the log >file may be some mbytes. > >When I think about it then I think that it is not ok to steal memory from the >computer of the user unless the user gave a special permission for it. > >I even thought that people may complain that chess programs like movei and every >chess program that has a logfile or use a learning file that gets bigger is a >virus. > >I can explain why. > >1)I am afraid that Movei can cause a demage to the computer of the user by >forcing it to save a logfile. >What happens if the computer has not enough memory to save the logfile? > >It is not allowed to cause intentionally a demage for computers of other people >and as soon as I know about the problem I cannot say that it is not >intentionally. > >I plan in any case to release a fixed version of movei in a few days that has >log off as default and enable logfile only if the user changes parameter >of steal memory from 0 to 1. > >2)Movei's learning is done at files with limited size and it only can learn to >change the first move so I guess that it is not a problem but it may be better >also if I tell the user information about the name of the files because >otherwise the user may be unlucky to have files with the same name in movei's >folder because the name of the file that book learning is done is >experimentalfile.d and I suspect that some people may have important information >in that file. > >Usually it should be no problem if the user saves movei in a special folder that >have no other important files and I know nobody who complained about it in the >past but it is better to do things before people complain and not after they >complain >and the name experimentalfile.d has chances to be a file of another user. > >What is your opinion? > >Should I ask Leo to temporarely remove movei until I fix the problems that I >mention? > >In that case I think that other programmers also should fix their programs and >yace for example generates a lot of logfiles even without asking me if I let it >to steal memory. > >I have hundreds of logfiles of yace and everytime that I run yace on chessbase >interface I get a new logfile with a different name that make the task of the >person who want to delete the logfiles harder(at least with movei I have the >same name for all the logfiles). > >It is not that I complain about yace(I thank dieter for halping me in advice and >in source code) but other people may complain. > >Uri
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