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Subject: Re: Using Crafty on WindowsXP

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:16:34 07/05/02

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On July 05, 2002 at 19:50:18, PJR wrote:

>Ok, I'm using Crafty 18.13 on windows XP pro with winboard.  Here's the command
>I'm using:
>
>"C:\Program Files\WinBoard\winboard.exe" /cp /fcp=WCrafty-18.13.exe
>/fd="C:\Program Files\Crafty\Crafty 18.13" /scp=WCrafty-18.13.exe
>/sd="C:\Program Files\Crafty\Crafty 18.13"
>
>Crafty automatically saves games that I play against it--what I would like to do
>is save the games to a seperate directory C:\Program Files\Crafty\Crafty
>18.13\Games.  Does anyone know how to do this?  Any help would be appreciated.
>Thanks

It is impossible.  There is a logpath variable you can set, but unfortunately,
microsoft chose to make a brain-dead decision to allow spaces (blanks) in
filenames.  This breaks my parsing in crafty and I refuse to fix something that
is so basically flawed...



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