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Subject: Re: No problems for me

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:31:39 09/23/99

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On September 23, 1999 at 10:05:05, Helge Gabert wrote:

>On September 23, 1999 at 03:21:05, Shep wrote:
>
>>On September 23, 1999 at 01:00:12, Pete Galati wrote:
>>
>>>On September 22, 1999 at 21:51:00, Helge Gabert wrote:
>>>
>>>>WCrafty 16.18 (Winboard) doesn't seem to recognize the compressed Nalimov
>>>>tablebases (*.emd).  However, it works fine with the uncompressed (*.nbb/nbw)
>>>>files.  Is there some magic trick to make it work?  Thanks for any suggestions.
>>>
>>>I hadn't been using tablebases for a long time (I don't have the space) but I
>>>decided to use the 3 pc tablebases and Crafty v16.18 would only see some of
>>>them.  I did not try decompressing them though, I just got rid of them because I
>>>didn't want to take the time to figure out what was going wrong.  It could be
>>>(?) that Crafty v16.17 does not have this problem.
>>>
>>>As far as I know I did everything right, but I should have checked the other
>>>programs to see if they could see all of the tablebases but I didn't, sorry.
>>
>>I tried 16.18 yesterday and did not notice anything. Running my usual test
>>positions, TBs like KPPKP or KQK or KNBK were accessed properly (compressed
>>format). I didn't verify if each and every one of the 5-man set worked, but at
>>least I don't see any obvious problem with TB access.
>>
>>---
>>Shep
>
>So what did you do?  Copy all .emd files into a directory, leave them *as is*
>(i.e, uncompressed), and run Crafty with command line option /tbpath=directory?
>If so, I'm at a loss, because that doesn't seem to work.

First step is to _always_ check the filenames.  They have two "." characters in
them.  If yours don't, crafty won't read them.



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