Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:04:39 04/25/00
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On April 25, 2000 at 10:15:34, James T. Walker wrote: >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 There was a point in time where it _had_ to be on the command line. As by the time the .rc file is read, the engine was already initialized and files were opened. I modified that a long while back to avoid the problem of users running into this and not understanding why it would work on the command line but not in the .rc file...
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