Author: Michel Langeveld
Date: 12:54:17 01/21/00
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On January 21, 2000 at 15:36:15, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 21, 2000 at 15:15:39, Jeremiah Penery wrote: > >>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 > > >The danger is learning. Turn it off and there won't be any problems, except >for missing log files here and there. But with learning on, I don't take any >precautions like file locking, to prevent simultaneous updating. Which would >be ugly when/if it happens... as the file will definitely become corrupted. > >It might just mean it leaves book earlier than it should. Or it might hang >if the file gets corrupted in a different way. Can't this be fixed in the next version of Crafty?? IE Network Support.
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