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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