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Subject: Re: Rebel and Win Nt

Author: Bela Andrew Evans

Date: 02:53:25 06/09/98

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On June 09, 1998 at 02:37:32, Ed Schröder wrote:

>>Posted by Bela Andrew Evans on June 08, 1998 at 17:41:24:
>
>>Since Rebel Decade seems to work fine with Win Nt, anyone know
>>why Rebel 8 (and I assume 9) doesn't work under Win Nt?  Does
>>anyone know of a workaround that can get Rebel to work in Win Nt?
>>I ask because I have Rebel 8 and want to use it on the fast computers
>>at work, which are all exclusively Win Nt.  In addition, does
>>anyone know how to convert a Rebel database (.dat) file to pgn or
>>cbf in Win Nt?  Any shareware utilities out there to do that?
>
>About Windows NT...
>Rebel8 didn't work with Win NT because of its copy protection. This
>was fixed for Rebel9. Still we officially do not support Win NT for
>Rebel9. Some are lucky others are not. Reason unknown. Best way to
>ask your dealer a money back guarantee, just in case. Some dealers
>will honor such a request other dealers don't.
>
>For your second question, Rebel databases can be easily converted
>to PGN and vice versa.
>
>- Ed -
>
>
>>Thanks for any answers in advance,
>>
>>Bela Evans

Ed, thanks for the response.  One question: You say that Rebel databases
can easily be converted to pgn, but I am wondering how to do that in
Windows NT?  Since I only have Rebel 8 and Windows NT machines, is there
a way to convert the Rebel database to pgn without using Rebel 8?




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