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Subject: Re: Tablebase generator source available

Author: Peter Fendrich

Date: 09:54:33 05/04/99

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On May 04, 1999 at 12:05:35, Steven J. Edwards wrote:

>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

How are the generated files compared to the E. Nalimov type?
I suppose bigger - any ratio?
Faster?
//Peter



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