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Subject: Re: PGN text file??

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:22:33 08/11/99

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On August 11, 1999 at 17:02:57, James T. Walker wrote:

>On August 11, 1999 at 12:51:17, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On August 11, 1999 at 12:22:03, James T. Walker wrote:
>>>Hello,
>>>I am emailing some of my games from ICC to myself in PGN format.  Problem is
>>>this is received as a "text" file even though it may have a "xxxx.pgn" name.
>>>What program is best to read this and convert it to a real "PGN" file?  How is
>>>it most easily done?
>>PGN is nothing more than text.  Just save or rename the file with a PGN
>>extension.  That's all there is to it.
>
>Hello Dan,
>Thanks for trying to help but I'm still missing something.  When I receive the
>emailed game I usually transfer it to Notepad or something like that and then
>save it with a "name.pgn".  But I can't retrieve this file with Fritz.  So how
>do I load this file into any Chess software I have. ( I have lots).
>Fritz,Rebel,Hiarcs,Nimzo,Junior, Crafty, CM6K.  I have loaded it into Crafty
>using winboard and crafty immediately starts replaying the game.  When Crafty
>finishes playing I can tell crafty to savea the game and then I can use that
>file in Fritz.  There must be an easy way to load this "PGN" file.
I suspect that there are errors in the file, and crafty cleans some of them up.
I suggest getting CDB and do a "convert to clean pgn" on any incoming files.
I'll bet your other tools will read them after that.



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