Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:45:53 01/21/00
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On January 21, 2000 at 15:54:17, Michel Langeveld wrote: >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. It isn't a network issue... it is a file sharing issue. That begins to tread on a big portability issue...
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