Re: [Scid-users] Question on the CVS repository

2010-11-20 Thread Joost 't Hart
On 11/20/2010 06:03 PM, Alexander Wagner wrote: Hi, > On 11/20/10 13:19, Joost 't Hart wrote: > > Hi! > > [...] >> The concept suggests more than plain CVS can do for you, and using my >> (cervisia) CVS client I cannot find any trace of these patches. Each >> file has its own private history, whi

Re: [Scid-users] Question on the CVS repository

2010-11-20 Thread Alexander Wagner
On 11/20/10 13:19, Joost 't Hart wrote: Hi! [...] > The concept suggests more than plain CVS can do for you, and using my > (cervisia) CVS client I cannot find any trace of these patches. Each > file has its own private history, which is nice and necessary, but imho > clearly not sufficient. I d

[Scid-users] Question on the CVS repository

2010-11-20 Thread Joost 't Hart
Hi, On scid's sourceforge website (http://sourceforge.net/projects/scid) you can see, scroll down a bit, the "project feed:" A list of recent patches to the repository. The patches are nicely numbered, and I was wondering what could be behind the list. The concept suggests more than plain CVS

Re: [Scid-users] Question

2010-01-27 Thread Israel Chauca Fuentes
On Jan 27, 2010, at 2:55 PM, Frank Sullivan wrote: > > I use scid for practice games, problem solving, replaying games lost. I > continue to have problems saving those games, though I use the > Games>save/add new game. It shows up on the game list and can be recalled, > updated and saved again, as

[Scid-users] Question

2010-01-27 Thread Frank Sullivan
I use scid for practice games, problem solving, replaying games lost. I continue to have problems saving those games, though I use the Games>save/add new game. It shows up on the game list and can be recalled, updated and saved again, as long as I don¹t log our of the program. Once I log back in, t

Re: [Scid-users] question about large databases

2009-11-29 Thread Pascal Georges
Scid is limited to 16 M games in a base. Pascal 2009/11/29 Paul Szeligowski > Greetings, > > Does anyone have experience with using SCID with very large databases, > such as over 100 million games? For example: http://marcelk.net/logics/. > > Any guidance available? > > thanks, > > Paul Szeligo

[Scid-users] question about large databases

2009-11-28 Thread Paul Szeligowski
Greetings, Does anyone have experience with using SCID with very large databases, such as over 100 million games? For example: http://marcelk.net/logics/. Any guidance available? thanks, Paul Szeligowski -- Let Crysta

Re: [Scid-users] Question: No variations after fics game?

2009-11-28 Thread Pascal Georges
2009/11/28 Joost 't Hart > Hi, > > Just noticed that it is not possible to enter variations during the > post-mortem of a fics game. > > Any particular reason? > I did not check this particular thing but basically FICS code is : only let the user enter a move when he's playing on FICS and it i

[Scid-users] Question: No variations after fics game?

2009-11-28 Thread Joost 't Hart
Hi, Just noticed that it is not possible to enter variations during the post-mortem of a fics game. Any particular reason? Thanks, Joost. -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day

Re: [Scid-users] Question on maintenance dialog

2009-02-17 Thread Joost ´t Hart
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 20:05 -0800, Cory Helfrich wrote: > Hello Joost and Benoit, > > IIRC, Scid displays the range and mean of the years and Elos in this dialog. > Unknown dates and Elos are not included in the range calculation, but are > included (as zero) in the mean calculations. Aha! This z

Re: [Scid-users] Question on maintenance dialog

2009-02-16 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
When I test that idea, it does not work. > Unknown dates and Elos are not included in the range calculation, but are > included (as zero) in the mean calculations. -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25,

Re: [Scid-users] Question on maintenance dialog

2009-02-16 Thread Cory Helfrich
Hello Joost and Benoit, IIRC, Scid displays the range and mean of the years and Elos in this dialog. Unknown dates and Elos are not included in the range calculation, but are included (as zero) in the mean calculations. Best regards, Cory  Cory Helfrich coryhelfr...@yahoo.ca _

Re: [Scid-users] Question on maintenance dialog

2009-02-16 Thread Joost ´t Hart
Wel, ok Benoit, this sounds convincing indeed. Thanks && never mind, I would say. I am still on the latest official release ("3.6.26, DEV 2009" it says in the About Box), which might have a bug Maybe I should try migration to 3.7 as well, or is it still in developer's state? I'd rather not j

Re: [Scid-users] Question on maintenance dialog

2009-02-16 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello, Checking earlier with Scid 3.7 for osx, and now checking with Scid 3.7 for Win, I obtain something like an average. Maybe it's a median : one could easily check with appropriate testing material. The first one contains only these two games : [Event "ch-AZE"] [Site "Baku AZE"] [Date "2009

Re: [Scid-users] Question on maintenance dialog

2009-02-16 Thread Joost ´t Hart
Hm, Let me quote myself: > Year range: 1560-2009 (842) > Rating rang: 1-2875 (78) Clearly, your hypothesis cannot hold, I would say. >From the past (older scid version, probably Shane's final release) I seem to remember that this number corresponded to the number of different actual values in t

Re: [Scid-users] Question on maintenance dialog

2009-02-16 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
It looks like the average year and the average rating of the active database. Does this hypothesis fits the data in your database ? -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tac

[Scid-users] Question on maintenance dialog

2009-02-15 Thread Joost ´t Hart
Hi, [scid3.6.26 - WinXP] In the top of the maintenance dialog I see some characteristics of the current database: ... Year range: 1560-2009 (842) Rating rang: 1-2875 (78) ... What do the numbers between ()'s denote? Cheers, Joost. -

Re: [Scid-users] Question on SCID versions

2007-10-02 Thread Marcin Kasperski
Well, those flamewars fortunately are more or less over, at least I haven't seen them for quite a lot of time. So - there is no reason to recover them. And let us stop on it. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft D

Re: [Scid-users] Question on SCID versions

2007-10-02 Thread Blue Devil Knight
Technically SCID is not presently being developed, but two forks, ChessDB and SCID-pg, are under active development. I made the mistake of stepping into this cow pie of an argument when I posted a positive review of ChessDB at my web site. I had no idea of all the controversy, and people starte

Re: [Scid-users] Question on SCID versions

2007-10-02 Thread Marc Plum
Okay, thank you. I did not realize that there were later versions than the ones by the original author at Sourceforge. When I googled SCID, I came up with that "official" site, and assumed that was it. Your message was enough of a hint that I found this site, http://prolinux.free.fr/scid/, whic

Re: [Scid-users] Question on SCID versions

2007-10-02 Thread pgeorges
Marc Plum a écrit : > First, let me acknowledge that this question is probably fully covered > in the mailing list archives. However, when I try to search there on > the Sourceforge site, I get a message that I don’t have sufficient > privileges. I also don’t see a version history on the SCID So

Re: [Scid-users] Question on SCID versions

2007-10-02 Thread Marcin Kasperski
> I’m curious as to what the differences are between version 3.5.x and > 3.6.1 of SCID. Is it mostly bugfixes, or are there significant > functional enhancements? Well I do not know. But there are a LOT of important enhancements between scid 3.6.1 (which is also ancient) and scid 3.6.18 (th

[Scid-users] Question on SCID versions

2007-10-02 Thread Marc Plum
First, let me acknowledge that this question is probably fully covered in the mailing list archives. However, when I try to search there on the Sourceforge site, I get a message that I don¹t have sufficient privileges. I also don¹t see a version history on the SCID Sourceforge page. So I¹ll just

Re: [Scid-users] question about importing pgn files

2007-03-12 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
>> I want to import a large number (~100) of individual pgn files into a >> Scid database. I'm under the impression that I can only import 4 at a >> time. Is this correct? If not, what is the correct procedure? Worse >> comes to worst, I can always stitch the pgn files together with a >> shell

Re: [Scid-users] question about importing pgn files

2007-03-09 Thread Richard Vaughn
Repeating -- For some reason the mailing list is stripping my reply, so I will one more time. There is also the command line utility pgnscid which converts a pgn file to a scid database. You can then open that in scid and append it to your main database or just place a filtered subset of Pe

Re: [Scid-users] question about importing pgn files

2007-03-09 Thread Richard Vaughn
>>Peter Horst a écrit : >>I want to import a large number (~100) of individual pgn files into a >>Scid database. I'm under the impression that I can only import 4 at a >>time. Is this correct? If not, what is the correct procedure? Worse >>comes to worst, I can always stitch the pgn files togethe

Re: [Scid-users] question about importing pgn files

2007-03-09 Thread Richard Vaughn
Peter Horst a écrit : I want to import a large number (~100) of individual pgn files into a Scid database. I'm under the impression that I can only import 4 at a time. Is this correct? If not, what is the correct procedure? Worse comes to worst, I can always stitch the pgn files together with a

Re: [Scid-users] question about importing pgn files -> in case of emergency

2007-03-08 Thread pgeorges
It took me 5 minutes to allow the import of multiple PGN files at once ... When I said it was not hard to do ! So I put a Scid 3.6.8 rc1 version at http://prolinux.free.fr/scid/download/unstable/ in case you have an urgent need for this. You just select the files to import with Shift + click an

Re: [Scid-users] question about importing pgn files

2007-03-08 Thread pgeorges
Peter Horst a écrit : > I want to import a large number (~100) of individual pgn files into a > Scid database. I'm under the impression that I can only import 4 at a > time. Is this correct? If not, what is the correct procedure? Worse > comes to worst, I can always stitch the pgn files togethe

Re: [Scid-users] question about importing pgn files

2007-03-08 Thread Bradley Small
Windows still has the dos commands of its ancestor. One of the things you can do, which I used to do when I was trying to imoprt the whole of TWIC at one fell swoop, was to use the copy command. The thing to remember is that PGN files are merely ascii text files and they can all go together, e

Re: [Scid-users] question about importing pgn files

2007-03-08 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Peter Horst wrote: > I want to import a large number (~100) of individual pgn files into a > Scid database. I'm under the impression that I can only import 4 at a > time. Is this correct? If not, what is the correct procedure? Worse > comes to worst, I can always stitch the pgn files together w

Re: [Scid-users] question about importing pgn files

2007-03-08 Thread Niklas Hallqvist
Yes you can, there's no difference in the file formats of scid bases (at least it wasn't the last time I looked). but, isn't sc_import installed as an executable in the windows port? Look there first, and try sc_import base *.pgn It ought to be installed, it's one of the more important commands

Re: [Scid-users] question about importing pgn files

2007-03-08 Thread Peter Horst
Niklas Hallqvist wrote: > [snip] > > PS Of course I assume you are not trying to do this in the GUI, it's > hardly the purpose of the GUI, if you ask me. > And, I assume you're not using Windows as well, as you write > "shell script", but even if you were, you could > easily install c

Re: [Scid-users] question about importing pgn files

2007-03-08 Thread Niklas Hallqvist
Peter Horst wrote: > I want to import a large number (~100) of individual pgn files into a > Scid database. I'm under the impression that I can only import 4 at a > time. Is this correct? If not, what is the correct procedure? Worse > comes to worst, I can always stitch the pgn files together w

[Scid-users] question about importing pgn files

2007-03-08 Thread Peter Horst
I want to import a large number (~100) of individual pgn files into a Scid database. I'm under the impression that I can only import 4 at a time. Is this correct? If not, what is the correct procedure? Worse comes to worst, I can always stitch the pgn files together with a shell script or some