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

Author: Didzis Cirulis

Date: 22:41:08 01/26/00

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On January 27, 2000 at 01:23:57, Lex Loep wrote:

>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

I guess he means opening .cbh format databases. Tiger opens .cbf

Didzis



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