Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:03:34 01/20/98
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On January 19, 1998 at 23:33:06, William Bryant wrote: >Bob and Corsten, thanks again > >I'm having a problem that may be my ignorance with the new 14.5 binary. > >I went to remake the book files since crafty now initialzes them to >the current version and got what I think is strange output > >See below > >EPD Kit revision date: 1996.04.21 >6 tablebase file(s) found in the TB directory. >unable to open book file [:Books:book.bin]. >book is disabled >unable to open book file [:Books:books.bin]. > >Crafty v14.5 > >White(1): book create small.txt 60 >parsing pgn move file (10000 moves/dot) >end-of-file reached >end-of-file reached > >sorting 0 moves (200K/dot) ><done> >merging sorted files (0) (10K/dot) >............................................................(600000) > > >it parsed the book small.txt (I know this is not the ideal opening book, >but tonight I'm a little short on hard disk space to parse the medium or >large books). > >My concern is about the end-of-file markers and the subsequent notation >of >0 moves and merging sorted files (0) > >This also happens when I try to recreate the books file. > >If left to its own devices, it keeps sorting ?empty? files, after a 10 >million >moves I felt this was an error. > >My best guess is it has to do with file paths, but I'm not sure. > >Again, no complaint against the excellent work done. >Just wanting a little help to get it up and running. > >Thanks in advance. > >William I suspect a bug and will build small, medium and large this morning to see. I greatly modified book input to accept any legal PGN file, plus a few non-legal things that appear from time to time. I may well have broken something else as I have not tried medium at all.
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