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Subject: Re: HIARCS 8, Installing the New Book

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 19:20:36 05/16/02

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On May 16, 2002 at 21:18:44, Mike J Fitch wrote:

>On May 16, 2002 at 19:03:30, Terry McCracken wrote:
>
>>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!
>
>
>Thanks Terry for asking the question i was about to ask,and thanks Kurt and
>Peter for helping us out.
>Best Regards
>Michael

lol Your Welcome! At least I know I wasn't alone on this one:o)

It's always easy when you know how;) I think the instructions could have been a
little more clear on step one.

Terry



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