Jan Gent wrote:
Hi!
> I've set up my PC to open pgn (mimetype) files with Scid.
>
> Unfortunately Scid starts multiple instances instead of opening the pgn
> file in the running instance.
Unfortunate is relative here, but in most cases I agree. (However, it
sometimes comes in handy to be able to open two instances.)
> Why isn't there a command-line option (like --use), for using the running
> instance instead of opening a new instance.
It's not implemented by a commandline switch but by an external helper
called sc_remote. Try if using this helper instead of the Scid main
program solves your problem already.
> This could also be useful for downloading (twic) pgn files from the web.
> Adding them to the main games database can then be done by simply dragging
> the new opened pgn base in the database switcher.
Depending on what you want to do you could automatise this further by
calling sc_import. Ie. you could e.g. fetch your games from twic using
wget/curl/whatever, unpack using unzip -j and then do something like
sc_import twicdatabase TWIC123.pgn
and only then fire up
scid twicdatabase
BTW: If you're fetching from TWIC automagically you might want to notice
that TWIC sometimes produces a bunch of doublette games for running
events. Deduping the base might be necessary:
sc_spell twicdatabase /path/to/ratings.ssp
HTH.
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