Re: [Scid-users] Script to get PGN files

2010-03-01 Thread palle
Hi In my opinion, TWIC is much more than just the - very nice - downloadable games! I think there are two ways to improve Scid's handling of these (games). 1. I would be helpful if Scid acquired the ability to import zipped pgn-files (that is not easily accomplished, but might be possible) 2. I wou

Re: [Scid-users] Script to get PGN files

2010-03-01 Thread Ben Hague
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 21:13 +0100, Alexander Wagner wrote: > I just talked with Mark about the issue. Point is, as always, money. > TWIC is financed by a sponsorship based on advertisments from various > interested parties. From this follows, the site needs real visitors for > the sponsor to in

Re: [Scid-users] Script to get PGN files

2010-03-01 Thread Alexander Wagner
Benoit St-Pierre wrote: Hi! > Thank you for this complete response and for the time you invested in > this. We now have a very complete response for those who ask. De rien. :) We'll see if there is a solution possible later on. > PS: Please take note of the working notes: they might come soon

Re: [Scid-users] Script to get PGN files

2010-03-01 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Alex, Thank you for this complete response and for the time you invested in this. We now have a very complete response for those who ask. I will forward the message to the forum where it comes from. And I will put it on my FAQ, which might be on-line next month, if all goes well. This kind of

Re: [Scid-users] Script to get PGN files

2010-03-01 Thread Alexander Wagner
Benoit St-Pierre wrote: Hi! > At least three persons in a chess forum told me that they will stick > to Chessdb as long as they can upload and append PGN games directly > into their chess database. Ok, here's how things go: - It's technically feasible - It's even trivial BUT: we will not do it

Re: [Scid-users] Script to get PGN files

2010-03-01 Thread Alexander Wagner
Ben Hague wrote: Hi! >> VB is windows only, and distribution unzip, well at some point we'll end >> up with a ready to run Linux CD just to run Scid. The canonical tool >> would just be unzip for ZIP, but people might think using other >> compression tools. > > Well, looking into it further i