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Subject: Re: 6 piece Database for Chessmaster 9000 on different Harddisks

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 15:23:21 04/20/04

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On April 20, 2004 at 17:18:41, Marc Bourzutschky wrote:

>On April 20, 2004 at 13:44:30, Markus Pillen wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>Since 8 Month Iam generating 6 Piece Endgamedatabases for the Chessmaster 9000
>>GUI. At the Moment my PC is generating KxxKxx. I thing they are ready in August
>>or September (hopefully) Now after generating some Databases with Pawns my Disk
>>is full and i have to use another Disk. I have asked Johan de Koning if it is
>>possible to set more than one Path in the Chessmaster GUI for the access of the
>>Databases. It isn´t possible and it isn´t planned for the next GUI.
>>Now i have a Question. Is it possible (via a little program) to make three or
>>more Pathes looking like one, so that Chessmaster can look at all generated
>>Databases?
>>I hope you know what i mean, because my english is not the best.
>>
>>best regards
>>Markus
>
>You need a utility to create "symbolic links".  I'm not completely sure such
>utilities exist for Windows (often what is advertised as a "symbolic link" is
>really a "hard link" which cannot be used accross different disks).  For
>example, the GNU "ln" utility ported from UNIX to windows only creates hard
>links. You might look at the site below and/or search the net...
>
>http://www.pearlmagik.com/winbolic/
>
>If you find something that works, I'd be interested!
>
>-Marc

Or you can create spanned or stripped partition that will allow you to use
several different hard drives as one large logical disk.

See, for example,

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/productdoc/en/default.asp?url=/WINDOWSXP/home/using/productdoc/en/sag_DISKconcepts_15.asp.

Thanks,
Eugene



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