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Subject: Re: Crafty Tablebases Questions

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:21:44 02/12/99

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On February 12, 1999 at 02:48:32, Ralph Jörg Hellmig wrote:

>On February 11, 1999 at 08:40:19, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>
>>also you can get by with 6 gigs.  All the files are now compressed using
>>Eugene's compression format, and they total to about 5.9 gigs.  You can
>>use them _without_ decompressing them if you use crafty v16.5 and later.
>>
>>
>
>It is much work to download the compressed TB files.
>Therefore I prefer to download the tbgen and to generate them myselves.
>
>Does tbgen include this compression format or is the compression program also
>available?
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Ralph


tbgen won't build compressed databases, but 'datacomp' is included in the
source files (tbgen.zip) and the executables (tbexe.zip).

Bob



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