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Subject: Re: Clean up PGN

Author: Alvaro Rodriguez

Date: 02:32:59 12/29/99

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On December 28, 1999 at 16:35:53, Chris Carson wrote:

>On December 28, 1999 at 16:24:13, Chris Carson wrote:
>
>>On December 28, 1999 at 15:50:33, Alvaro Rodriguez wrote:
>>
>>>Hi, I wonder if there is a program that can "clean up" PGN and produce games
>>>that are PGN compliant? I used the chessmaster 6000 database and I make a large
>>>PGN file, like 300 mb . But when I create the book.bin and books.bin in crafty,
>>>I get error messages, like this: ERROR!   Move 20: dxe6ep is ellegal (line
>>>xxxxxxx). Thats why I wonder if such a program exists..
>>>
>>>Best wishes
>>>
>>>Alvaro
>>
>>Try extract: ftp://ftp.cs.ukc.ac.uk/pub/djb/Extract/About.html
>>


>>Best Regards,
>>Chris Carson
>
>I use extract as follows to clean up pgn files for Crafty.  :)
>
>extract -onewfile.pgn oldfile.pgn
>
>The "-o" is the output option for extract.  In the above
>example, olfile.pgn will be read into extract and written
>line by line (checked by extract) to nefile.pgn.  Newfile.pgn
>will be the cleaned up PGN file.  Take a look at the extract
>documentation, the source is provided.  :)  Does lots of other
>DB functions as well.
>
>Best Regards,
>Chris Carson

Thanks Chris, I will try it later..



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