Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 21:01:17 10/26/02
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On October 25, 2002 at 12:50:21, Roy Eassa wrote:
>On October 19, 2002 at 09:42:51, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On October 19, 2002 at 07:31:14, Alastair Scott wrote:
>>
>>>I find the existing one rather too small; it's out of book extremely early too
>>>often (eg after 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3 ... !).
>>>
>>>Is there a method (no matter how clunky or awkward) of creating a book.prc from
>>>a PGN file, for example? The Web site says '... you will be able in the future
>>>to download updated opening books from www.chesstiger.com and to install them on
>>>your Palm without the need to reinstall the entire program' but, so far, nothing
>>>has appeared.
>>>
>>>Alastair
>>
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>>You cannot create opening books at this time.
>>
>>There is also the problem that in the current version the opening book size is
>>limited to 64Kb, due to some limitation in PalmOS.
>
>
>I have several Palm apps that can get at data bigger than 64k (e.g., DOC
>readers). How do they manage to do that?
There is no hard 64Kb limitation in PalmOS.
You can call my problem a bad decision: I have chosen to store the entire
opening book in one "database record", and the size of a single record is
limited to 64Kb (the size of a database, or file, does not have this limit).
So the problem does not come from the OS in itself, but from a design decision
of mine at a time when I was very short in time. So I have chosen a quick (and
maybe dirty) solution.
This limitation has not been a problem for the vast majority of my customers so
I still believe it was the right thing to do. But I will definitely remove this
limitation because I want the most advanced customers to be happy with the
product as well. And they ask for a bigger opening book.
Christophe
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