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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