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Subject: Re: ChessGenius Palm: 2 games where CG blunders

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 07:54:51 01/25/01

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On January 24, 2001 at 19:57:01, Christophe Theron wrote:

>Let me try to guess. On the Palm, there is a limit on the size of the texts
>handled by the "MemoPad" program (the equivalent of Windows NotePad). This limit
>is 8Kb.
>
>I think it's a stupid limit, but the problem is that exporting to MemoPad is
>really convenient (your games are saved automatically each time you synchronize
>your Palm with your PC). So ChessGenius for Palm cannot create PGNs longer than
>8Kb. So getting rid of part of the headers is a solution to save space...
>
>I have not tried, but I believe most PGN readers would be able to read
>ChessGenius PGN-like format, so I think the PGN-like format is OK.

First, can the PGN text of a chaess game, without annotations, really reach 8k
or anywhere close??

Second, the limit per note may be much less.  2k rings a bell.

Third, the programmer can always provide a conduit with his app -- they're
pretty easy to write.  The conduit, once installed, can back up the games during
a hotsync.  Pocket Chess, which unfortunately plays MUCH weaker chess, does it
this way and it works very well.



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