Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:08:32 12/11/02
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On December 11, 2002 at 11:36:52, James T. Walker wrote: >On December 11, 2002 at 08:18:18, Bob Durrett wrote: > >>On December 11, 2002 at 07:35:38, George Sobala wrote: >> >>>Trying to ftp to ftp.cis.uab.edu I connect OK but there is nothing there - empty >>>directory listing. Where has it all gone? >> >>Crafty must be in bankruptcy. : ) >> >>Bob D. > >Yes, everyone knows that a college Professor can't run a computer properly. I >guess UAB went bankrupt because of it. >Jim The ftp machine is back up, with a bunch of new tables on it (200+ gigs in fact). A few points: (1) everything is not quite up. I have the crafty directories with source, and the new tablebase (TB) directory ready to go. I lost the .tbs files in the crash and will have to get Eugene to send those to me again. 2. _no_ engines are going to be able to use these new tables yet. Eugene has sent me a preliminary version of the new egtb.cpp code to test, and it has been running just fine so far. He mentioned that he wanted to clean up a few more things before releasing it. The moral of this is "download all you want" but "do _not_ put the new tables where your engines can see them. " They will screw things up _badly_ and we don't need a lot of extraneous error reports flying around. 3. There are a few missing files that I need to recover. The crafty.faq is one if someone has the latest one they downloaded. Also the crafty documentation files (although I think I have recent copies of these tucked away somewhere, just not on the backup tapes that barely worked this time). 4. I am trying to get a second 100mbit connection to the ftp machine to support better bandwidth, but this will take a while. At the moment, 100 mbits is all you will get, although that machine can drive the network at near-wire speed... More later.
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