Author: Roy Brunjes
Date: 10:25:33 11/24/02
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On November 24, 2002 at 13:11:13, Frank Phillips wrote: >On November 24, 2002 at 12:55:59, Roy Brunjes wrote: > >>I have spent the better part of an hour surfing the web looking for >>documentation that explains how to get Crafty to use its book. I am confident >>it needs to be an entry in the .craftyrc file, but I cannot find any docs for >>that file. I find lots of stuff on how to build a book for myself (using the >>"book" command), but I just want Crafty to use the book I have downloaded. >> >>I have copied the book files into the same directory as Crafty's executable >>sits, but still the book is not used. I am starting Crafty with this command: >> >>xboard -fcp /home/roy/chess/crafty/v18.14/crafty -fd >>/home/roy/chess/crafty/v18.14 >> >>Also, Bob Hyatt's ftp site (ftp.cis.uab.edu) seems to be down (at least I cannot >>get to it), so pointers there won't help me just now. >> >>Thanks for any assistance you can offer, and sorry for what has to be the >>definitive newbie question. The FAQ does not shed any light on this (that I >>could find) either. >> >>Roy > > >If the book.bin (and books.bin) are in the same directory as crafty then crafty >should find them by default, I think. > >If the above is a script file then you need \ >at the end of the line eg > >xboard -fcp /home/roy/chess/crafty/v18.14/crafty \ >-fd /home/roy/chess/crafty/v18.14 > >assuming v18.14 is the directory with the executable in. > > >Frank > > > >#!/bin/bash > >xboard -size Large \ >-fcp "/home/crafty/crafty logpath=./log" \ >-fd "/home/crafty" \ >-tc 5 -inc 2 -mg 500 \ >-thinking -ponder \ >-sgf "/home/fp/chess/zzz.pgn" Solved the mystery -- BOOK.BIN was the file name (it came downloaded that way). doing a mv BOOK.BIN book.bin (and similarly for BOOKS.BIN) fixed it. Thanks for the assistance! Roy
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