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Subject: Re: Screamer vs. Crafty, EGTB Query

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:20:45 12/05/00

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On December 04, 2000 at 11:31:34, Hans Havermann wrote:

>On December 03, 2000 at 17:03:25, William Bryant wrote:
>
>>--if you can't use all the 5 man EGTB's, don't use any of the 5 man EGTB's.
>
>I am fortunate in being able to accomodate the 5-man EGTB's. [The first thing I
>did with my 70 GB-capacity firewire drive was section it into a 10 GB "Chess",
>and a 60 GB "Music" partition.] Only Screamer and Crafty are able to access
>these tables. Each of these programs needs the TB's to be in a certain location
>with a specific name, which might imply having to *duplicate* the set. An
>attempt to get Crafty to recognize an alias of the Screamer EGTB folder proved
>unsuccessful.
>
>Is there some way to get both programs to access the same EGTB's?

Crafty should have no problems.  Use the "tbpath=e:\x\y\z" command to point
it to the directory where the TBs are kept.  This is how everybody handles
this problem.  Or if you run under linux, just create a symbolic link from the
crafty directory to the directory where the TBs are stored.




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