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Subject: Re: For Chess History buffs

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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