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Subject: Re: A New Self-Play Experiment -- Diminishing Returns Shown with 95% Conf.

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:20:51 05/24/00

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On May 24, 2000 at 17:03:55, Pete Galati wrote:
>On May 24, 2000 at 15:45:29, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>On May 24, 2000 at 15:32:30, Pete Galati wrote:
>>>On May 24, 2000 at 15:22:23, Mike S. wrote:
>>>>Ah... now it works:
>>>>
>>>>http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/~heinz/ps/new_exp.ps.gz
>>>>
>>>>(sorry)
>>>
>>>gzip is gnu's zipping utility.  If you've got a copy of gzip.exe somewhere in
>>>the path on your computer, you could go to the directory, and go:
>>>
>>>gzip -d *.gz
>>>
>>>as I recall, and it should expand that file.  You won't be left with the
>>>original .gz file though, it'll just expand.  I don't have a clue if you can do
>>>that with winzip.
>>>
>>>I don't think I have anything that can view postscript though.
>>
>>Egads man!  You are missing out on 95% of all available chess literature.
>>
>>Quick, like a bunny, download and install Ghostscript and GSView.
>>You won't be sorry.
>
>Ok, I got gs403ini.zip, gs403w32.zip, and gs403fn1.zip all unzipped into one
>directory, and I've associated .ps with gswin32.exe, an even put Earnst's file
>in the Ghost's directory (it doesn't seem to be gzipped actually.  But there's
>something I did wrong, because it's not opening the file for me yet.
>
>I'll have to look into this later.

Did you actually do the install?  You install Ghostscript first, then install
GSView.  It needs to do a bunch of stuff to establish fonts, etc.

The file is definitely gzipped.  Unzipped, it should look like this:
05/24/00  12:27p               187,356 new_exp.ps

13 pages.



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