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Subject: Re: To Robert Hyatt a tablebase space

Author: Jonas Cohonas

Date: 03:25:01 11/08/01

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On November 08, 2001 at 00:59:35, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On November 07, 2001 at 18:47:09, Jonas Cohonas wrote:
>
>>On November 07, 2001 at 18:40:04, Pablo Damian Appezzato wrote:
>>
>>>Hi Robert, i need your help about the tablebase in your ftp. I download the
>>>folder FIVE and this have 7GB!! of information (a total of 10 CD of 700 Mb).
>>>Now the 9 CD of Nalimov tablebase contain the 3, 4 and 5 pieces final.
>>>
>>>Why?
>>
>>Any posiblity of making TB's readable from .zip files?
>>(maby a stupid quetion, but it would cut the sizes in half)
>>
>>Regards
>>Jonas
>
>Wouldn't save a single byte.  The TBs are _already_ compressed using a
>better algorithm than gzip.

Actually i managed with winzip to shave off 4 MB of 571 MB, but i guess that is
not worth it?

Regards
Jonas



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