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

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 15:48:19 01/08/99

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On January 08, 1999 at 18:30:30, William Bryant wrote:

>On January 07, 1999 at 16:15:31, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>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...
>
>Thanks for the reply
>
>The tbpath= option works fine in identifying the subdirectory (folder) labeled
>TB.  It does not, however, help Crafty identify the egtb files in the directory,
>however.
>
>I'm open to other thoughts.
>
>Has anybody else had this problem?
>
>William
>wbryant@ix.netcom.com
>
>And, thanks again.  All help is appreciated

Do you have C compiler on your Mac? Or maybe somebody else can help
with debugging? If so, please contact me - I'll say what to watch and
where to set the breakpoint.

Eugene



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