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Subject: Re: No copy and paste positions in Fritz 6B

Author: Chessfun

Date: 16:49:37 12/11/00

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On December 11, 2000 at 15:38:08, Jeroen van Dorp wrote:

>You are right, I supposed wrongly that you only used the engine.
>
>There *was* a way out without patching the buggy interface, and that was
>renaming the file to fritz6b.exe and editing it with a hex editor where every
>fritz6 string should be replaced by fritz6b, keeping the same string length,
>which is possible - because there was an extra space.
>
>That sentence is way too long, sorry - I got carried away.
>
>Well, in that case you can use the new engine in the old GUI, provided you
>reinstall it.
>
>I can't find the hex editor anymore so maybe someone else can doublecheck
>possible nonsense.
>
>Jeroen ;-}


What Mogens and Enrique wrote is naturally correct as far as the gui went.
I renamed the Fritz 6 engine to Fritz6b.exe with a hex editor then re-installed
the 6a version leaving both a and b engines.

There were specific posts here on how to do this in probably April or May I
remember one specifically from Didzis that was correct.

Sarah.








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