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

Author: George Sobala

Date: 14:18:42 11/13/03

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On November 13, 2003 at 14:07:51, F. Huber wrote:

>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.

Fantastic! Suddenly Rebel-12 works for me under Windows 2000 under both Arena
(as winboard) and Chess Assistant 7 (as UCI).



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