Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 14:06:14 10/27/02
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On October 27, 2002 at 15:24:27, Roy Eassa wrote:
>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?
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>>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).
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>I see.
>
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>>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!
Thanks. I will definitely improve it, in two main directions:
1) features for the beginners
2) features for the most advanced players
In every free update you will notice features going in those two main
directions.
Christophe
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