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Subject: Re: HIARCS 8, Installing the New Book

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 16:03:30 05/16/02

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On May 16, 2002 at 18:53:21, Vincent Lejeune wrote:

>On May 16, 2002 at 18:30:40, Terry McCracken wrote:
>
>>On May 16, 2002 at 17:26:25, Peter Ackermann wrote:
>>
>>>Hi!
>>>
>>>You almost got it!
>>>
>>>>1. Create an empty openings book by calling Menu File -> New -> Openings book.
>>>>
>>>>Ok here's my first snag, at step 1, Exactly what should I do here as when I go
>>>>to Menu File -> New -> Openings book, I get my Hiarcs 8 ctg. and I'm not sure
>>>>what to do? It isn't clear to me what good this is? Making a new folder doesn't
>>>>make sense here?
>>>
>>>Well, here you write a new name to the folder "Filename" (Dateiname) f.e.
>>>Matchbook.ctg
>>>
>>>You know have an empty opening book.
>>>If you go on with your step 2 (like you did it; it was right!) you will have a
>>>new opening book "matchbook.ctg" within a few minutes.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>So I jumped to, 2. Call Menu Edit -> Book -> Import old book and select
>>>>"H8.hbk".
>>
>>
>>Thanks Kurt and Peter!
>>
>>Ok I went back to step 1 and made a name beside *ctg. I removed the (*) and
>>wrote H8Tour.ctg at which it loaded within minutes. However this book is only
>>36.0MB is this correct?
>>
>>Thanks Again!
>>
>>Terry
>
>Yes , same size here
>
>16/05/2002  22:58           37 781 504 H8tourn.ctg
>16/05/2002  22:58                2 060 H8tourn.ctb
>16/05/2002  22:58              131 076 H8tourn.cto
>
>it took about 30 min to build the book on my celeron@875 Mhz

Thanks, Vincent

Terry

P.S. It must have done it quickly as the conversion from step 2 was done ahead
     of step one. BTW that took half an hour also!



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