Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 01:34:48 06/08/03
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On June 08, 2003 at 02:58:47, Peter Skinner wrote:
>On June 08, 2003 at 01:45:52, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>On June 07, 2003 at 23:54:18, Peter Skinner wrote:
>>
>>>On June 07, 2003 at 16:05:27, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>>
>>>>On June 07, 2003 at 11:37:48, Peter Skinner wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On June 07, 2003 at 05:51:33, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Peter
>>>>>> I have embedded Shredder704 [Engine704.exe] as a
>>>>>> UCI-engine under CP 5.3. And I do not think it's
>>>>>> necessary to have an entry in the engineext.ini.
>>>>>> May this be a reason for your problems? As already
>>>>>> said, I have no problems at all.
>>>>>> Kurt
>>>>>
>>>>>How did you exactly embed the Shredder engine without the entry in the file?
>>>>>
>>>>>I had to put it there or it did not show up in the engines list.
>>>>>
>>>>>Peter.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I selected the menu "Extra", went to "Engine Import Wizard",
>>>> afterwards "Winboard / UCI Engines", and then with "Install"
>>>> installed the "Engine704.exe". That's all.
>>>> Kurt
>>>
>>>Hi Kurt,
>>>
>>>I did the same this morning, and I got two extra lines that were added to the
>>>engineext.ini. One for a new game, and one for something else. This has to some
>>>degree fixed my problem.
>>>
>>>Have you tried switching the setting from "agressive" to "normal" to see if that
>>>has any impact on the playing strength?
>>>
>>>Peter.
>>
>>
>> Hi Peter
>> Not yet, because with Shredder 7.04 I usually play under
>> CB- or Classic-GUI. More interesting is for me the fact
>> why I can't find an engineext.ini in my folders. I still
>> think that this ini-file is not required provided no
>> winboard engines are running under CP 5.3 ?? I only have
>> an engineext-sample.ini, all these questions with this
>> ini-file are not clear to me. What's your opinion?
>> Kurt
>>ยจ clear to me an
>
>The engineext.ini file is in your root directory.. ie. C:\Windows C:\WinNT
>
>It is in there, if you look there you can find it and see the entries I am
>talking about.
>
>Peter.
Indeed, what a surprise. How I hate such things: I mean
the fact that programs do distribute their working and
setting files somehere on a hard disk where you will
never search for them. I can't understand such things.
Kurt
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