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Subject: Re: Rebel mystery solved - still a little easier!

Author: F. Huber

Date: 11:07:51 11/13/03

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On November 13, 2003 at 13:48:40, Mihaly Szalai wrote:

>>>Copy and rename from the Rebel DOS the following files to the
>>>rebel12 folder:
>>>
>>>rebel.bal - black.*
>>>rebel.bbe - black.*
>>>rebel.bbi - black.*
>>>rebel.bbp - black.*
>>>rebel.bbr - black.*
>>>rebel.bbx - black.*
>>>rebel.eoc - white.*
>>>rebel.bal - white.wal
>>>rebel.wbe - white.*
>>>rebel.wbi - white.*
>>>rebel.wbp - white.*
>>>rebel.wbr - white.*
>>>rebel.wbx - white.*
>>>
>>>* means the same.
>>>
>>>It's as simple as that :-)
>>
>>Mihaly, I am astonished, how did you find out?
>>
>>I think secretly a bug sneaked in because the files relate to Rebel's EOC chess
>>tree. I will have a look at my code as somehow Rebel expects an EOC database
>>loaded. Very strange...
>>
>>Thanks for pointing out.
>>
>>My best,
>>
>>Ed (still amazed)
>
>Hello Ed,
>
>it was very easy with the help of a little utility named Filemon.
>See www.sysinternals.com
>
>Best wishes
>Mihaly

Hi Mihaly (and all others),

really a good job, what you´ve discovered!

I´ve been playing around with these strange files, and found out, that
only 2 of them are needed - and they can be 0-byte-files:

WHITE.EOC
BLACK.BAL

Just create those 2 files (with 0 bytes!) in the Rebel folder,
and everthing is ok - it runs without any problems as a WinBoard engine
e.g. in Arena!

(Btw, I´ve also tried to manually send the command ´setvar eocuse 0´ to
the Rebel engine (within Arena), since this problem has probably to do
with the EOC database - but this command didn´t work.)

Best regards,
Franz.






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