Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:05:51 07/05/05
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On July 05, 2005 at 15:01:51, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >On July 05, 2005 at 14:55:00, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On July 05, 2005 at 14:49:30, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >> >>>On July 05, 2005 at 13:31:35, Dann Corbit wrote: >>> >>>>Try: >>>>http://cap.connx.com now and see if it works for you. >>> >>>Will the ftp be dead forever? I am one of the (probably) few, who liked your >>>ftp. It is so much easier to download lots of files (for example your junkbase >>>in PGN with thousands of files - wouldn't be practical with http download, would >>>it?) Recently there were some problems with your ftp - before that, it always >>>worked perfectly for me. >> >>FTP is forever dead. >> >>I was getting a dozen emails per day and I got tired of trying to deal with it. >> >>Also, the FTP servers were constantly crashing and causing many problems. > >Ok, I can and will respect this of course. You might consider, to give a >practical alternative to those directories with really lots of files, like >a-openings. For example zipping them together first, and then using bzip2. > >For now, I could download all of them just at the last days of your ftp. > >I guess, I just should install Scid again. That is definitely the fastest way to get all the data (about half the size of the individual files). If you need PGN, you can dump the PGN from SCID. If you need separation into openings, then PGN-Extract is good for that.
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