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Subject: Re: Tablebase problems

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 12:34:25 12/14/00

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On December 14, 2000 at 09:10:52, James T. Walker wrote:

>On December 13, 2000 at 23:51:32, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>
>>On December 13, 2000 at 23:38:19, James T. Walker wrote:
>>
>>>The last couple of days I discovered that Fritz 6 would not run on my second
>>>computer.  I believe I have tracked the problem down to corrupt tablebase files.
>>> Since Fritz/Junior/Hiarcs and I think most all programs do some kind of test
>>>when initializing the engine/tablebases and they all refuse to run if only one
>>>is bad,  how hard would it be for the engine to tell me which one is faulty?
>>>Since I now have 180 tablebase files that would be a great help.
>>>Does anyone know if this is possible?  Bob? Eugene?
>>>Jim
>>
>>I am assuming that you are using compressed TBs, as everybody else. If so,
>>download DATACOMP.EXE from Bob's site (it's part of the tbexe.zip in the TB
>>directory), and then run
>>  FOR %f IN (*.emd) DO datacomp t %f >>t.txt
>>from the command line in the directory that contains your TBs. After it'll
>>finish check the file t.txt for the possible errors.
>
>This is what I get in the t.txt file.
>datacomp: file "KBKNBB~1.EMD" should have extension ".emd"
>datacomp: file "KBKNBW~1.EMD" should have extension ".emd"
>datacomp: file "KRKNBB~1.EMD" should have extension ".emd"
>datacomp: file "KRKNBW~1.EMD" should have extension ".emd"
>datacomp: file "KQKNBB~1.EMD" should have extension ".emd"
>datacomp: file "KQKNBW~1.EMD" should have extension ".emd"
>datacomp: file "KPKNBB~1.EMD" should have extension ".emd"
>datacomp: file "KPKNBW~1.EMD" should have extension ".emd"
>datacomp: file "KNKNBB~1.EMD" should have extension ".emd"
>
>etc. etc.
>Is it complaining that my ".EMD" will not work because of the Caps?
>Jim

Unfortunately, yes :-( I'll fix it in the upcoming next release.

Eugene

>>Eugene



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