Maurice, thanks! inline replies below
On 12/23/19 7:09 AM, Maurice McCarthy wrote:
Hi Steve,
The documentation tends to lag behind the coded program quite a lot.
I've volunteered myself to try to improve this. I've found that I need
to know the program much better than I do to really get to grips with
this. Lately I've been held up by ill health too. Had an operation 3
weeks ago but the recovery is going very well.
Good luck with it!
Not everything works as I dare say we would like. If you press F1
anywhere in Scid you are intended to get relevant help. All the html
files are generated from the Tcl code of the built-in help.
Pgn files cannot be altered in Scid. They can only be read and all
changes will be lost. The procedure to import a pgn file to a Scid
database (which consists of 3 files - an index file .si4, a game file
.sg4 and a name file .sn4) is as follows:
Suppose you have a pgn file of AlphaZero's games called AlphaZero.pgn
1. Create a brand new Scid database with <File>-<New> and name it, for
example "AlphaZero.si4 " (The index file implies both the associated
files also)
2. Import the pgn file into this new database with <Database>-<Import
...> The imported games are saved immediately in the Scid database.
Yes, this is what was confusing me. Most other software has a Save and
a Save As function, but scid's only allows saving to a preexisting
database file. This is counter-intuitive and confusing. In particular,
the idea of saving clipbase to a database file makes sense and would
make things better. But this is, I suppose a Nice To Have.
Once I realized that I had to have (i.e. create) a set of database files
already in order to save, it was easy.
Thus the old program pgnscid is now redundant.
Note also the documentation currently references 3rd generation
database files .si3 etc. rather than 4th generation. I think that the
Windows fork of Scid code to "PC vs. Scid" was responsible for the 4th
generation improvement and this has subsequently been drawn into the
original Scid.
Yeah, this bit me too. I searched for .si3 files and couldn't find any!
I run Scid 4.7.0 on OpenBSD and on Windows 10 to try to satisfy myself
of any anomalies between the two operating systems. If I can be of any
further help please let me know. I'll do my best to respond within a
day or two.
Best Wishes
Moss
On 22/12/2019, Steve Cohen <stevec...@gmail.com> wrote:
1. I'm using scid on Ubuntu Linux 19.04. The web site used to have a
document for installing the latest there? I no longer see this. Don't
remember how I previously installed it.
2. I'm sure I've been using scid suboptimally but can't figure out the
right way. I've mainly been working with .pgn files. Lately I wonder
what is the function of "saving" the database? It creates no files that
I can see. Where is the function that saves the "clipbase" database to
disk? And so, even though I dutifully "save" the database, I have to
also export a game to a .pgn file to retain my work. What am I missing?
3. The Import.html help file mentions a program called pgnscid, but it
doesn't seem to exist on my system. Where should it be?
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