Author: William Penn
Date: 21:44:11 11/28/01
Tablebase questions I've accumulated about 5.5 GB of tablebases from various sources, mostly by downloading from Hyatt's ftp site. (1) My files being from different sources and routes have various attributes set (Archive, Read-only, Hidden). They work OK insofar as I'm aware, but I don't really know for sure. There are no error messages, at least. Does it make any difference how the attributes are set? That would be easy to change, but I don't have any idea what is correct. (2) There were lots of download interruptions, which were resumed automatically using my ftp client (WS_FTP95 LE). I'm not aware of any errors. I've checked manually and the number of bytes in each file is correct, as compared to Hyatt's values. However I would feel more confident if there were some other kind of independent verification such as a checksum for each tablebase file. Is such a utility and checksums (or whatever) available for Windows or DOS? (3) I haven't downloaded the King + 3 pieces versus King (KxxxK) tablebases based on advice that they aren't of real value. Is that true? If not, which ones would be more important? I'm asking because I'm running out of hard drive space now!? Thanks, WP
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