Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:41:13 07/18/00
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On July 18, 2000 at 18:43:53, KarinsDad wrote: >On July 18, 2000 at 14:00:29, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On July 18, 2000 at 10:36:08, Gordon Rattray wrote: >> >>>Sorry if this has been asked before... >>> >>>How much hard-drive space do I need if I want to use 5 piece endgame tables? >>> >>>Is it feasible to construct these using the program supplied on, say, the Junior >>>CD (using a PIII 800 with 256Mb RAM roughly)? Or is it better to download them? >>> I've only ever previously constructed the 4 piece tablebases using the CD. >>> >>>Thanks in advance for any advice >>> >>>Gordon >> >> >>You need a total of about 7.5 gigs of space, if you used them in compressed >>format as most everyone is doing (compressed files are actually faster on almost >>all machines due to reduced I/O bandwidth). >> >>Building them is a huge task. Downloading works better. >> >>Or buying the 12-CD set (someone is selling this). > > >What we need is a DVD version so that the program can get them directly from the >DVD drive. Of course, this would have to be a DVD-9 standard (7.9 gig) in order >for 7.5 gig to fit, but there would be enough room to put Crafty on as well. ;) >;) > >KarinsDad :) If you know of a reasonable DVD burner, I'll buy one. But I have not been able to find _anything_ so far. I am slowly burning all the tables onto CD so that we have a permanent copy, since my site is _the_ site to keep these things and I don't want to take any chances.
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