Author: maria clara benedicto
Date: 23:21:09 12/11/02
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On December 11, 2002 at 14:08:32, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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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