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Subject: Re: Using Crafty on WindowsXP

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 00:24:37 07/06/02

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On July 06, 2002 at 02:44:35, Koundinya Veluri wrote:

>On July 05, 2002 at 23:16:34, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>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...
>
>I had the same problem with Crafty and egtb path but this can be fixed.
>Replacing (for example):
>"C:\Program Files\Crafty\Crafty" with "C:\Progra~1\Crafty\Crafty", works
>perfectly on my computer.
>
>Regards,
>Koundinya


Alternatively, just set up all your files with no spaces -- I would use
"Crafty_18_13" as the file name in your example.



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