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Subject: Re: Will the real GUI8.iup stand up please?

Author: William Penn

Date: 15:25:58 02/16/05

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On February 16, 2005 at 17:38:14, F. Huber wrote:

>On February 16, 2005 at 17:21:48, William Penn wrote:
>
>>Here's the date when I've downloaded, either via playchess.com (although it will
>>no longer let me in!?), and/or from the open download link (now at
>>http://www.fritzserver.org/updates/gui8.iup), and the number of bytes of the
>>file...
>>
>>June 16, 2004 - 7,996,975 bytes
>>
>>January 11, 2005 - 7,996,975 bytes
>>
>>January 12, 2005 - 8,906,610 bytes
>>
>>February 4, 2005 - 8,906,602 bytes
>>
>>February 16, 2005 - 8,906,602 byte
>>
>>I downloaded the one today because there is a message in this forum below that
>>says a new version has been released. But there's no difference in the number of
>>bytes from my last one, so how can we know if we've got the right one? I could
>>run it to find out, but I'd prefer to know beforehand and not mess with my
>>installation unnecessarily, which is working OK.
>>WP
>
>Of course the last two are identical, and that´s the latest version with
>an EXE of Jan. 10, 2005!
>
>To extract all files without messing up anything just copy the GUI8.IUP to
>any temporary folder, copy the file IUpgrade.exe from your Fritz8 installation
>to the same folder, and start this file!
>So you get all extracted files, can have a look at them (especially the date
>of ChessProgram8.exe), and if you want then copy the needed files over your
>Fritz8 installation.
>
>Simple and safe! :-)
>
>Regards,
>Franz.

Thanks for the useful tip.
Same number of bytes could possibly be different internally. I wasn't thinking
(happens sometimes) or I would have run a MD5 on them to see if they're
different.
WP



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