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Subject: Re: Tablebase generator source available

Author: Steven J. Edwards

Date: 09:05:35 05/04/99

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On May 03, 1999 at 21:21:55, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On May 03, 1999 at 18:27:44, Steven J. Edwards wrote:

>>The freely distributed tablebase generator source is available at no cost
>>via e-mail to any interested parties.  It is sent as a uuencoded gzip
>>comrpessed tar archive, so you will need the uudecode, gunzip, and tar
>>utilities (or their functional equivalants) to get to the source.  The
>>file is just under 50 Kbyte long.  The program is written entirely in
>>ANSI C and had run under Mac, Linuc, and Windows.
>>
>>Send e-mail if you are interested.

>Is it designed exclusively for Crafty?

No.  The tablebase generator is a separate program.  The files it produces
are simple binary data files that may be used by any compatible program
on any platform.

>Is the source code for accessing the tables avalaible?

The Crafty source distribution contains working sample code for accessing the
tablebase files.

>Does it work under DOS too?

Yes.  It is a simple "console" style application.

-- Steven




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