Author: Tom Likens
Date: 07:00:45 01/09/02
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Terry, Thanks for the suggestions. I'm running Linux and crafty as well as Yace both recognize the tablebases, so I believe the files are OK. I still think I have something set oddly in my code. I've got some free time today so hopefully I'll debug this soon. If the answer is anything worth sharing I'll let everyone know what was wrong. regards, --Tom On January 09, 2002 at 01:13:22, Terry Ripple wrote: >On January 08, 2002 at 22:59:32, Tom Likens wrote: > >> >>Hello, >> >>After a hiatus, I've dusted off my old chess program and started working >>on it. One of the first things I'm adding is support for Eugene Nalimov's >>tablebases but I've run into a minor snag. Everything works great as >>long as I only try to read the uncompressed tablebases, but when it >>tries to access a compressed tablebase I get the following message: >> >>*** Unable to read /wrk2/egtb/TB/kbnk.nbw.emd - file broken >> >>I'm using the routines off of Robert Hyatt's ftp site which have compressed >>support. The code seems to indicate that it will simply recognize either >>a compressed file or an uncompressed file, but no such luck so far. >>I feel this must have a trivial solution (such as not initializing a >>variable or some such) but I'm missing it. >> >>Anyway, thanks in advance. Special kudos go to Mr. Nalimov, for the >>obvious hard work. It amazes me at the quality of work that people are >>simply willing to give away. >> >>regards, >> >>--Tom Likens >--------------------------- > >Hi Tom, > >I believe i know what your problem is! I also downloaded all 3,4,5 man Namilov >from Hyatt's site and found that they won't work with some programs because >there are 2 dots in each file and i had to remove the first dot from the left >with all 290 files! Example kbnk.nbw.emd you should change to kbnknbw.emd > >If this still don't correct your problem then you have a file or several files >that got corrupted during your download. Did you make sure that you had all >anti-virus software disabled as this can cause you problems? > >There were ealier posts on here that explains the different ways you can check >to be sure all your files are ok. Those posts were in the last few days! > >Good luck to you, >Regards,Terry
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