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Subject: Re: Unanswered polyglot questions

Author: Fabien Letouzey

Date: 00:56:26 10/21/05

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Hi Thomas,

On October 20, 2005 at 20:41:05, Thomas Logan wrote:

>>- "-pgn"

>>Name of the input PGN file.  PolyGlot should support any
>>standard-conforming file.  Let me know if you encounter a problem.

>Any standard conforming file ?

PGN is a standard.  Some "PGN" files do not conform to it.

>Arena Abk, Shredder bkt, CB ctg

Are those formats documented anywhere?

>>- "-bin"

>>Name of the output binary file.  I suggest ".bin" as the extension but
>>in fact PolyGlot does not care.

>Will this allow output to be used as an engine book for engines that use the
>format book.bin ?

I doubt it.  ".bin" means nothing more than "binary, not text".  PolyGlot's .bin
files are compatible with Fruit and no other engine that I know of.

Fabien.




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