Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:32:06 11/24/02
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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 What are the permissions on book.bin and books.bin? book.bin _must_ be rw for the owner... For the moment, forget xboard and cd to the above directory and type "crafty" and see if it complains about the book somehow... It is binary data. When you downloaded did you use binary mode? If not that will corrupt it. > >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
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