Author: Helge Gabert
Date: 20:52:29 09/23/99
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On September 23, 1999 at 14:31:39, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. I found the problem. I downloaded a zipped file from Dann Corbit's site (NALIMOVC.ZIP) and left the original .zip file in the directory. That apparently confuses Crafty. The directory should contain ONLY the .emd files, nothing else, then everything works fine. Sorry for the confusion this might have caused. By the way, NALIMOVC.ZIP is missing krkb.nbw.emd, so beware!
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