Re: [Scid-users] How to build a database

2012-03-27 Thread John
On 01/30/12 23:52, Fulvio wrote: > Tom Malloy wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Although I a pretty sure I could figure out how to write a perl script >> (for example) to extract the games from mail and create a pgn file, >> there are simpler solutions that should be preferred. >> Most interfaces will allow you

Re: [Scid-users] How to build a database

2012-01-30 Thread Fulvio
Tom Malloy wrote: > Hi, > > Although I a pretty sure I could figure out how to write a perl script > (for example) to extract the games from mail and create a pgn file, > there are simpler solutions that should be preferred. > Most interfaces will allow you to log your games. Eboard does, xboar

Re: [Scid-users] How to build a database

2012-01-30 Thread Tom Malloy
Hi, Although I a pretty sure I could figure out how to write a perl script (for example) to extract the games from mail and create a pgn file, there are simpler solutions that should be preferred. Most interfaces will allow you to log your games. Eboard does, xboard does, and i think the buil

Re: [Scid-users] How to build a database

2012-01-30 Thread Fulvio
Peter wrote: So what I would appreciate is a script that can concatenate all the individual email games together that are in my Kmail chessgames directory and save them in one file in a suitable format to be able to put them into a Scid database. I have removed all the '@'s just in case :)

[Scid-users] How to build a database

2012-01-30 Thread Peter
Hello, Now I've finally managed to build Scid, I would like to put it to work. Every time I play someone on FICs the game is emailed to me afterwards, I use as my mailer Kmail and I have a specific folder that my games are filtered into. I can locate those games with the command in bash 'loc