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Subject: Re: Shredder 4(5) question

Author: Steve Coladonato

Date: 04:59:42 08/31/00

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On August 31, 2000 at 03:30:09, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote:

>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
>
>What makes the output epd compatible?
>Can you give an example, please?
>
>Stefan

Stefan,

About a year ago this topic came up on the forum here and I believe that I sent
you a copy of the EPD standard which you indicated you would review.  But, also,
in your defence, I believe all this took place right around your win in the
WMCCC so quite possibly the EPD stuff got lost in the excitement.

The awk script that I wrote searches the Shredder dump output file for the last
line in it's evaluation of the position and then formats that to the standard
EPD format.

If Shredder were to have an option to generate a standard EPD format file, in
addition to the dump file, that would satisfy everyone's wish (I believe).
Possibly that option could be a standard feature of analyzing an EPD file.

Regards,

Steve



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