Author: Kelly Fergason
Date: 19:02:35 01/22/04
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On January 22, 2004 at 20:29:41, Dann Corbit wrote: >On January 22, 2004 at 20:23:30, Bob Durrett wrote: > >>On January 22, 2004 at 19:59:40, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>On January 22, 2004 at 19:45:25, Bob Durrett wrote: >>> >>>>On January 22, 2004 at 19:03:43, Dann Corbit wrote: >>>> >>>>>On January 22, 2004 at 17:58:22, KarinsDad wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>Did programs actually go through every single legal move to create these? >>>>> >>>>>Divided by a constant for reflections, rotations, etc. >>>>> >>>>>http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/~heinz/ps/NHH_ICGA.ps.gz >>>> >>>>I could not unzip this file with WinZip. How to unzip it? >>> >>>Here it is decompressed: >>>ftp://cap.connx.com/chess-papers/NHH_ICGA.ps >>> >>>You will need a postscript interpreter to read it. >>>If you don't have one already, this works well: >>>http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ >> >>Before I do this I would like to have your personal assurances that downloading >>and installing the "ghost" files will not modify my Microsoft Office 2003 >>software. I recently had a horrible experience with ROBO products which do >>modify Word, Excel, etc. Installing the ROBO software caused me to lose >>features of Microsoft Office which I use daily. It took a threat of a lawsuit >>to get the mess off of my computer. > >I never give my personal assurances about anything. I have it installed on my >machine. It might break everything you have and format your hard disk. > >>If you really don't know the answer, please do not hesitate to say so. I went >>through HELL with the ROBO stuff [There was no deinstaller no obvious way to >>uninstall the hidden files and registry entries.] and do not wish to go through >>anything like that again! I'm sure you'll understand. > >Maybe Adobe's Acrobat reader can work with Postscript. I find that the PS >reader works with postscript and the PDF reader works with PDF files. But YMMV. > >If really, really bad things happen, I won't help you to fix it. >I'm lazy, like that. This may be the funniest post (on any topic) that I have read in more than 10 years... Kelly
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