Author: Tina Long
Date: 01:05:25 04/25/01
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On April 25, 2001 at 01:41:39, Dann Corbit wrote: >On April 25, 2001 at 01:32:44, Tina Long wrote: > >>On April 24, 2001 at 20:24:59, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>Note especially the chess data found here: >>> >>>ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/a-openings/ >>>ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/b-openings/ >>>ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/c-openings/ >>>ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/d-openings/ >>>ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/e-openings/ >>> >>>You will need bzip2 to extract the data. You can get that here: >>>ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/Scid/bzip2.exe >> >>Hi Dann, >>I regularly access your openings data, as despite the massive amounts of chaff, >>there's always plenty of good quality wheat. The setup as individual ECO codes >>is wonderful (I'm a big B97 fan). >> >>Question: I downloaded bzip2.exe, but on execution I see a black box for 1/100 >>second & then nothing. Can you please point me towards instructions for the >>operation of bzip2. (gees I hope I'm not gonna have to exit to DOS & type lotsa >>stuff - I useless at that - gimmi WinZip anytime). > >If you execute: >bzip2 -d B97.pgn.bz2 And there's My problem, the only way I know how to execute is by doubleclick (=clickenter) - Doesn't matter, I'll follow Jan's advice. > >And you have a bzip2 compressed file called B97.pgn.bz2 in that directory, then >after the program executes, there will be a decompressed file called B97.pgn in >that directory and B97.pgn.bz2 will have dissapeared. It's just like gzip in >that respect. > >It compresses a great deal better than anything else. I presumed that was the case, and consider that a good very thing, especially if you live up a remote Aussie Mountain where the phone lines are espacially skinny. Thanks Dann
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