Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:15:25 11/29/01
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On November 29, 2001 at 00:44:11, William Penn wrote: >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. > I would be a bit worried about "hidden" but not being a windows user, I don't know if a program can open a "hidden" fine. If not, then hidden would be bad of course. :) >(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? There are md5sum files in each directory that contain md5sum values for every table in that directory. > >(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 Best is to get 'em all. Then _every_ 5 piece (and less) probe will be successful every time. Total space for 3-4-5 is 7.5 gigs.
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