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Subject: Re: 2 questions for CSTAL

Author: Chris Whittington

Date: 02:23:20 12/19/97

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On December 19, 1997 at 00:17:06, Komputer Korner wrote:

>Before I ask the questions, may I congratulate Chris and Thorsten  for
>the wonderful features of CSTAL . The amount of information that CSTAL
>gives, makes it the techie dreamland of chess software for chess
>techies.  Now for the questions:
>1) If one runs CSTAL from the WIN 95 desktop, how does one run it
>without having to have the CDROM in the drive?

By running it from DOS. DOS is capable of testing for the presence of a
CDROM and returning if there isn't one. Windows insists on the CDROM
being inserted.
So don't run it from the desktop. Its not recommended.

> A message always comes up
>to put the CDROM in the drive  if you haven't already  put it in the
>drive and no amount of key pressing anywhere  seems to do anything. In
>short it won't start unless the CDROM is in the drive.

Not from Windows, anyway. Please use DOS as we recommend.

>2) Where  is the file ecoclas.txt ? In the STOP the presses help file,
>it is mentioned that this is a wider openings classification than the
>engopen.txt file but I can't find the ecoclas.txt file.

I've got a hangover. Over to Thorsten for this one ....

Chris Whittington




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