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Subject: Re: Help and Thanks; Crafty 16.3 on Mac and EGTB's

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:15:31 01/07/99

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On January 06, 1999 at 22:50:43, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>On January 06, 1999 at 22:25:01, William Bryant wrote:
>
>>Thanks to whoever supplied the 16.3 binary for crafty.  I'm glad the problems
>>are worked out.
>>
>>It appears to run well and rebuilt the large book quickly on my G3 machine.
>>I downloaded the 3 man egtb's from the ftp site (the new format ones) and put
>>them in the TB folder (subdirectory)
>>
>>When I type: egtb<cr> I get the following response
>>0 piece tablebase files found
>>
>>Crafty is not recognizing the files.
>>What am I doing incorrectly?
>>
>>Thanks
>>william
>>wbryant @ ix.netcom.com
>
>I think that code that is searching for the files is not Mac-
>compatible - I have no one near me. Tomorrow I'll look at the
>sources.
>
>Maybe some Mac guru can answer the questions:
>- is there any way to recognize that C++ program is compiled for Mac
>  (what macro are typical Mac C++ compiler defines?),
>- what character is the directory separator at Mac (it's '/' in Unix,
>  '\' in Windows)?
>
>Eugene

it might be worth a try to use the tbpath= option to direct crafty the
tablebases...  I don't know if it will work or not however...



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