Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 12:24:27 10/27/02
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On October 27, 2002 at 00:01:17, Christophe Theron wrote: >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 >>> >>> >>> >>>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). I see. > >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. > I am a happy customer too! I did not mean to imply anything negative. As a programmer myself, I know that I must make practical decisions on what features to leave out and what enhancements to delay to a future release, or I will never get a product out. I think you did a GREAT job! > > > Christophe
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