2010/3/3 Fulvio <f...@libero.it>: > Robert Ryan wrote: > > On 3/2/2010 7:56 PM, Benoit St-Pierre wrote: > > > How did you proceed, for clarity's sake? > > > Well, that really a two part question :) > > To create the database I used DownLoadThemAll! (a Firefox extension) to > down load all of the TWIC zip files at one time. Then I used 7-zip to > extract all of the files to a temp folder. I appended all of the files > together using an MS-DOS command. > > > On linux i use this little script: > > #!/bin/sh > FIRST="$1" > LAST="$2" > > while [ $FIRST -le $LAST ]; do > URL="http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/zips/twic${FIRST}g.zip"; > wget $URL -nv 2>>wget-twic.log > let FIRST=FIRST+1 > done > > unzip \*.zip > rm *.zip > ALLFILE="twic${1}-${LAST}" > cat *.pgn > $ALLFILE > rm *.pgn > mv "$ALLFILE" "${ALLFILE}.pgn" > > Then SCID was used to spell check, update ECO and find duplicates. See > attached for the options I used to find the duplicates. >
I'm new to this scid world, but I think there are some twic commandline programs (at least on Linux) to merge create a SCID database from PGN files, merge to SCID database files and after that spellcheck, sort and pack the databases, aren't there? Mikel -- Mikel Larreategi http://eibar.org/blogak/erral/es ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
