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Subject: Re: Any docs on crafty's new TB format?

Author: jonathan Baxter

Date: 11:11:16 11/03/98

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On November 03, 1998 at 13:08:08, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On November 03, 1998 at 12:30:35, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>
>>On November 02, 1998 at 22:07:59, jonathan Baxter wrote:
>>
>>>On November 02, 1998 at 21:41:42, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>>On November 02, 1998 at 18:52:14, Peter Kappler wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>File is in pub/hyatt/TB/tbgen.zip  and ready to go...  (quick as a
>>>>>>speeding bullet I am)...  :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Bob
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Bob,
>>>>>
>>>>>The file is there, but it's not downloadable because the necessary read
>>>>>permissions aren't set.
>>>>>
>>>>>--Peter
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>fixed...
>>>
>>>
>>>Man, I though Edward's code was hard to invert to work out the indexing scheme.
>>>This is a nightmare: looks like I'm not gonna be able to write my own interface.
>>>
>>>Jon
>>
>>If you are interesting in indexing schema, look at the functions
>>IndCalcW and IndCalcB in file tbindex.cpp. There are several
>>template classes (T21, T22, T31, T32, T41), and each class has
>>its own set of those functions.
>>
>>Eugene
>
>I can also send you the "driver" from Crafty's source, although I hope it will
>be available later today anyway.  If you look at "probe.c" you'll see what I do
>to call the C++ stuff from Eugene's code...  (he wrote probe.c in fact).  It
>isn't that hard if you don't try to look at tbindex.cpp... :)
>

I gave up on tbindex.cpp, but probe.txt from tbgen.zip tells you how to
write an interface to it and I got one working last night (not tested yet).
These TB's are great: love all those KQ*KQ ones. Thanks guys!

How many Gig downloaded from ftp.cis.uab.edu:/pub/hyatt/TB in the last 24 hours
I wonder?


Cheers,

Jon


>Bob



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