Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 18:21:11 01/21/06
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On January 21, 2006 at 18:09:20, Robert Hollay wrote: >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. Good point - AFAIK, no one has a replace command when using simple text pgn files. Michael
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