Author: ujecrh
Date: 17:08:50 02/17/01
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On February 16, 2001 at 20:00:50, Dann Corbit wrote: >Games from 1500 to 1950 are found here in PGN and SCID format. The games are >compressed with bzip2 (and the binary to compress/decompress is found in the >same location): > >Compressed PGN: >ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/Scid/hist.pgn.bz2 > >Compressed SCID: >ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/Scid/hist.sg.bz2 >ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/Scid/hist.si.bz2 >ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/Scid/hist.sn.bz2 > >Compression/Decompression program: >ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/Scid/bzip2.exe > >To decompress a file, do it like this: > >bzip2 -d hist.pgn.bz2 > >When the program bzip2 finishes, the file hist.pgn will be expanded in place and >the file hist.pgn.bz2 will be gone. Is there any reason not compressing it with gzip instead so that the file is immediately readable by SCID with uncompression ? (the difference in size should not be so big or can SCID beta use bzip2 compressed PGNs ?) ujecrh
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