Author: Pete Galati
Date: 10:52:56 06/18/99
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You don't paste it into a program, you paste it into the Notepad or Wordpad and saveas 'filename.pgn' and then you have access to it with about 10,000 pgn viewers. Pete On June 18, 1999 at 11:14:25, Robert Ericsson wrote: >On June 18, 1999 at 11:07:52, Quenton Fyfe wrote: > >>I just copied some PGN from this forum into my Windows clipboard, and tried to >>find a chess program to paste it into, so that I could look at the game. >> >>Not a particularly sophisticated requirement - but most of the programs I have >>either can't do it at all, or hide it away somewhere that I couldn't find it >>quickly: (It should be Edit / Paste). >> >>Fritz5: No - but it's only pseudo-windows anyway. >>Chessbase Light: Nothing obvious >>Chess Assistant 4 Demo: No - (surprising - it's one of the better Windows >>interfaces) >>EPD2Diag: - No (recognised PGN on the clipboard, but chose not to paste it in) >>etc etc etc - I tried several others.... >> >>Perhaps some of these programs can do it (saving to disk and importing doesn't >>count...) - but it wasn't obvious at a glance; which it should be. >> >>The ONE program I found that gets it right? - CDB of course. Thanks Peter ! > >KenChess can do this - and it's freeware! >http://members.aol.com/kenchess/private/home.htm > >Robert >> >>I guess this highlights the difference between writing a program for windows - >>and writing a windows program. >> >>So which other programs can Edit/Paste pgn ? >> >>Regards >> >>Quenton Fyfe
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