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Subject: Re: Winboard/Crafty Question

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 07:15:34 04/25/00

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On April 24, 2000 at 13:19:43, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On April 24, 2000 at 10:33:01, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>>On April 24, 2000 at 09:43:46, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On April 24, 2000 at 09:22:19, James T. Walker wrote:
>>>
>>>>How do I activate Crafty's tablebases when running in Winboard?
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Jim Walker
>>>
>>>1.  you need "egtb" in the crafty.rc file.
>>>
>>>2.  you put them in a directory "./TB" or else put them where you want and
>>>then add "tbpath=c:\a\b\c\TB" or whatever to point to where you put them.
>>>
>>>that's it...
>>
>>Hello Bob,
>>I have the "egtb=5" in the Crafty.rc file but since the TB's are not under the
>>Crafty directory, Crafty can't find them.  They are in D:\TB but I don't know
>>how to tell Crafty where they are when running under Winboard.  When I start
>>Wcrafty in a dos box I use "Wcrafty17_10 tbpath=d:\tb" and Crafty finds them
>>with no problem.  In your statement above you say add "tbpath=...." but add to
>>what/where?
>>Jim Walker
>
>
>add tbpath=d:\tb to your crafty.rc file.  Or else add it to the command line:
>
>.....  /fcp "wcrafty tbpath=d:\tb" ......
>
>Either place works...

Thanks Bob,
Of course it works!  For some reason I had it in my mind that it would not work
in the ".RC" file.  I thought it had to be in the command line and I couldn't
figure out how to do that with winboard.
Regards,
Jim Walker



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