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Subject: Re: Winboard/Crafty Question

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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