Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 12:15:39 01/21/00
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On January 21, 2000 at 14:56:16, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 21, 2000 at 13:17:25, Rafael Villarroel wrote: > >>If playing games between different versions of Crafty >>under Winboard, is it ok to have both versions in the same directory? >>I mean, could there be problems because of accesing the book, >>writing learn or log files, etc? >>Rafael > > >Probably. Use the option in winboard that lets you specify a different >starting directory for each version. Then you install the executable and >book files in the two directories and avoid the problems with both trying >to update a learn file at the same time and corrupting it. > >IE if position.bin gets corrupted, it will hang crafty when it tries to use >it. I'm not saying that it's a good thing to do, or that it won't ever cause problems, but I've never had any problems running two crafties against each other out of the same directory, using all the same files. YMMV, of course. Jeremiah
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