Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:18:36 11/29/01
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On November 29, 2001 at 10:47:20, William Penn wrote: >On November 29, 2001 at 10:15:25, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>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. > >Thanks. The files downloaded from your ftp site have the Archive attribute set, >so I suppose that I'll make them all that way. "archive" is a windows thing. The ftp machine is linux. Which means the archive bit is being set by windows as you download. I thought that bit was simply used to indicate "this file is new and has not yet been backed up" or else "this file has been modified and now needs to be backed up." > Between your and David >Rasmussen's replies, I'm now initiated into the "md5sum fraternity". First >question which pops up in my head: Will the file properties such as name, >attributes, and dates created/modified/accessed affect the md5sum values? Nope. Just contents of the file, nothing else. > I ask >mostly because files where the ftp download was interrupted (then resumed later) >have my download date for "date modified", rather than your original upload >date. I guess I'll find out. <:o) As for getting all 7.5 GB on my two-year-old >12 GB hard drive, maybe temporarily, then burn CD copies and remove those less >important. Yep, my next system will have a 60 MB hard drive (at least)!? >WP
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