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> In my opinion, TWIC is much more than just the - very nice - downloadable > games! Right. > 1. I would be helpful if Scid acquired the ability to import zipped > pgn-files (that is not easily accomplished, but might be possible) Hm. This could indeed be helpful. > 2. I would be extremely nice if Mark could be convinced to deliver the > weekly pgn-files in gzipped form (.pgn.gz! They are directly accessible > from Scid (at least under linux) and if it needs to be gunzipped, the > default action is to replace the archive with the native form, avoiding > unnecessary clutter. > > of course a third way could be to convince Mark to deliver the games as a > scid-database, only problem is that Scid has no official archive format. > > The fourth way might be to use the "official" compact pgn-format (.pgc), > which absolutely no-one seems to have implemented (and which I personally > think should be "replaced" with .pgn.gz, there's no reason to reinvent the > wheel!). > > bw. Palle Bratholm > >> 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 invest money and thus keep the site alive. Endangering >>> this is of course out of question. >>> >>> Therefore, Mark told me that he does not want us to automatise the PGN >>> download, at the moment. But he also told me that we should stay in >>> touch, even about the issue, as there might some day be a solution to it >>> and than he'd happily see Scid integrating TWIC. >>> >> One possible way round this might be to automatically open TWIC in the >> user's web browser every time they download games from TWIC (or whatever >> other site you might want to download games form). That way Mark gets >> his visitors, even if they don't stay long, and we get automated >> downloads. Does this seem like a possibility? >> >> Ben Hague >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> 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 >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users -- Kind regards, / War is Peace. | Freedom is Slavery. Alexander Wagner | Ignorance is Strength. | | Theory : G. Orwell, "1984" / In practice: USA, since 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
