Author: Robert Hollay
Date: 15:09:20 01/21/06
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On January 21, 2006 at 11:41:10, Mike Byrne wrote: >On January 21, 2006 at 10:18:26, William Penn wrote: > >>On January 20, 2006 at 08:15:24, Christopher Conkie wrote: >> >>>Life just gets better and better....... >>> >>>Go now........download........here........ >>> >>>http://www.playwitharena.com/ >>> >>>In the Arena Download section on the left hand side menu. >>> >>>:-) >>> >>>Christopher >> >>I haven't been able to use prior versions of Arena because they don't have a >>"replace" operation. I need to be able to load a game from a database, modify >>it, then replace it in the database at the same position. Arena only has a >>"save" operation, so the game is saved at the end of the database (appended) - >>messing up the order of games in the database. Can you tell me if this has been >>fixed/implimented in the new version? >>Thanks, >>WP > >No, it is not a fucntion that Arena has. Although, I agree it would be a "nice >to have" function. Perhaps if you contact the authors, they could add it to >their list? Games which are saved under Arena in PGN format are not in a database, but in an ordinary file, sequentially written. It's difficult to replace or delete games in a sequential file. The only possible operation is appending the new game at the end. It would be much better to use a true database for that purpose, a lightweight database, e.g. dBase or Paradox, which have indexed search capabilities and all the above mentioned functions.
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