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.
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. 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. 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? > > > _______________________________________________ > Scid-users mailing list > Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users > _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
