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Subject: Re: crafty tablebase path=shutdown

Author: J. Wesley Cleveland

Date: 09:12:01 08/12/04

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On August 12, 2004 at 11:26:52, joseph soney wrote:

>On August 12, 2004 at 09:52:29, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On August 11, 2004 at 23:17:06, joseph soney wrote:
>>
>>>On August 11, 2004 at 23:08:38, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 11, 2004 at 22:56:25, joseph soney wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I have been looking for an answer: My question is when I set the the tbpath=...
>>>>>in my crafty.rc and save it. then when I start up crafty, crafty starts and just
>>>>>shuts down in less than a second. If I take the tbpath= command out the program
>>>>>plays very good weird. Also, might be a mute point since I am only useing the
>>>>>program for 1min and 3 min games. Does anyone know if tablebases would be good
>>>>>or bad in those time controls? thanks alot>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Open a dos (command) window, cd to the crafty directory and type "crafty".  See
>>>>what it says when it starts up and exits with your path in the crafty.rc file.
>>>>That should give you an idea about what is wrong.  IE corrupt table, bad path,
>>>>permission problem, etc...
>>>
>>>Cant read what it say it loggs off to quick. are they really nessary for the
>>>time controls I am using?
>>
>>
>>tables help in _all_ games.  I am not sure what you mean by "it logs off too
>>quickly".  The dos window should still be open, and the output from Crafty
>>should not disappear...
>it does just dissappear the dos window. cant figure out why.

It disappears because you did not do what Bob asked. From thw start menu, select
programs/accessories/command prompt, then cd to the crafty directory and type
"crafty".



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