Author: Steve Coladonato
Date: 04:48:55 08/31/00
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On August 30, 2000 at 20:03:25, Robin Smith wrote: >On August 30, 2000 at 06:43:13, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote: > >>On August 30, 2000 at 06:18:23, Jouni Uski wrote: >> >>>Does stand alone Shredder4(5) support automatic solving of EPD test suites? If >>>not, how about Millennium interface? >> >>Yes, this is possible in Shredder since version 1. >> >>Stefan > >Stefan, > >This is the second time you have commented that Shredder has EPD capabilites >"since version 1". You said this also to Dan Corbit. I think Shredder's EPD >capability is fair, but could be much improved; namely Shredder IMPORTS EPD >correctly, but its OUPUT is *not* EPD compatible. I would very much like to see >Shredder export it's analysis in an EPD compatible form. This would make >Shredder able to interface with programs such as Bookup and I imagine it would >help Dan Corbit with his CAP project as well. Test suites arew NOT the only use >for EPD!! I can't imagine this would be hard for you to add. It is the top >item on my wish list for the next revision of Shredder from an otherwise very >happy Shredder 4 user. > >Robin Smith I agree that Shredder's output is not EPD compatible. About a year ago I wanted to add some Shredder analysis to Bookup. Bookup would generate the EPD positions for the nodes and that file was then analyzed by Shredder. In order to get the results back into Bookup, I wrote an awk script to convert the Shredder dump file into standard EPD format. There were a couple of problems with the way Shredder handled en passant (I believe) in the dump file but other than that it was pretty straight forward. I sent a copy of that awk script to Dann Corbit and also offered it to Bob Pawlak. I don't know if Dann used it or not but if anyone is interested, I could send them a copy of the awk script (mindfull it is just a utility script). It works with standard unix awk and also mawk for the PC. If anyone wants a copy, please e-mail me and not post here in the forum. Regards, Steve
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