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Subject: Re: Five seconds work. But they obviously need better help file.

Author: Lex Loep

Date: 22:23:57 01/26/00

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On January 26, 2000 at 23:55:49, James A. Tackett wrote:

>On January 26, 2000 at 19:10:12, Dan Andersson wrote:
>
>>It took about five seconds to open a Chessbase database. But to be honest It is
>>probably only because of my twenty-five years of programming and computer use
>>not to mention my immense speed reading ability.
>>
>>Regards Dan Andersson
>
>People seem to be under the impression that I am overlooking something simple,
>or I just don't know how to do something as simple as opening a file.  I've had
>two coputer chess friends over to see what I'm doing wrong.  All three of us are
>regular users of computers and chess programs.  None of us can get this program
>to read, see, acknowledge or open a CB file.  Yes we're in the proper directory,
>yes the data is there, yes Tiger will take us to the folder we want, yes we have
>the proper file extension via Tiger.  This program will not load the database on
>this machine Gateway 450 GP6.

What exactly happens ? Do you get an error message ?
Can you open PGN files ?
Can you open LDB files  (there are some on the CD and a few installed in
the dbases directory) ?

Lex




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