Author: William Penn
Date: 22:37:38 09/03/02
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On September 03, 2002 at 18:56:01, Rick Terry wrote: >Thanks for those who respond. >I went to hyatts site, but didn't know how to download the files, if this is >silly to someone perhaps you can tell me how, with a link. I have a cable modem, >but i suspect it will still take forever If you are using windows and Internet Explorer 6, try this link: ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/TB/ That should bring up a browser screen with several folders (or objects): five four six tbs three upload tbexe.zip tbgen.zip Then, you can probably rightclick those folders and select "copy to folder", to copy them (i.e. download them) into a local folder on your hard drive. That works with my W98se/IE6 system, but the exact method might be slightly different with other op systems. With some systems you might be able to use drag & drop, or copy/paste, but that doesn't work for me. Perhaps my firewall is interfering there. The "three" folder is very small so will download quickly. The "four" folder is 29.5 MB, so will take somewhat longer. The "five" folder is large and contains 7.03 GB. So you may want to doubleclick the "five" folder and download the individual files therein separately (or in batches). After you download everything in those three folders it comes to 7.05 GB total. It's up to you whether you want the "six" folder too. All of the other folders are optional, and you don't need them if your only interest is setting up the tablebases on your hard drive to work with chess software. There's another way too, using a "ftp client". I downloaded all of the tablebases with WS_FTP95 LE and didn't have a single error despite many interruptions. So I believe this is the preferred method. WP
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