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Subject: Re: Dear John Merlino

Author: John Merlino

Date: 09:53:25 03/23/01

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On March 23, 2001 at 07:10:11, Slater Wold wrote:

>On March 22, 2001 at 17:36:18, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>On March 22, 2001 at 08:56:38, Slater Wold wrote:
>>
>>>I played a game against CM8K last nite, and saved it as a CMG (on accident) to
>>>further review today.  Well, I brought it up in Chessmaster, analyzed it, and
>>>then thought I would get a deep anylasis with Junior.  So I hit SAVE and then
>>>typed the file name I wanted, and then clicked PGN.  It will not save it as a
>>>PGN!  No matter what format you choose, it will save it as a CMG over and over
>>>and over!
>>>
>>>Got any ideas?
>>>
>>>Slate
>>
>>I cannot reproduce this error. Let's go through the steps.
>>
>>You unintentionally saved a game in CMG format. Try loading that game. Then,
>>press CTRL+S to bring up the save dialog. There will be a default name in the
>>"File Name" section, and "Chessmaster Games (*.CMG)" will be selected in the
>>"Save as Type" section. Change the text in the "File Name" section to the file
>>name that you want, but DON'T add the ".PGN" extension at the end; just put
>>something like "Me vs. Chessmaster". Now, change the "Save as Type" selection to
>>be "PGN Game Files (*.PGN)" and press the "Save" button. That should save the
>>game as a PGN file.
>>
>>jm
>
>Yup, exactly.  And guess what?  It saves it as a CMG over and over and over.
>Remember though, I analyzed the game too.  So therefore; I saved it as CMG,
>closed CM, opened it later, brought the game up, analyzed it, then tried to save
>it as a pgn.  And it just saves it as a CMG over and over.  I am using Windows
>2000, so perhaps someone with Win2k could reproduce the error.
>
>It was a 34 move game, so I just entered it manually into Junior, no big deal.
>Thanks for responding though!
>
>:)
>
>Slate

Ok. I'll look into it, and I'll respond on Monday.

jm



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