Crafty questions.
Posted: 30 Mar 2019, 17:51Hi! 
I just compile the last stable Crafty version at my (Linux) system (for using it with XBoard).
Just a couple of (not significant) questions:
1) At Crafty's homepage (at "Downloads" section), states that "Crafty has a pretty complete "help" command, this gives an ASCII, postscript and troff/nroff versions of the documentation, along with a text file describing how to operate crafty...".
Ehm...I can't see any text file (except the code and makefile)!
Also, does someone figured out, how to invoke the built-in help?
Not important though, since the online version is always here: http://www.craftychess.com/documentation/craftydoc.html.
2) I downloaded book.bin (from books downloads (http://www.craftychess.com/downloads/book/) and I was trying (although its optional) to create books.bin.
As it's documentation states (http://www.craftychess.com/documentation/craftydoc.html, "Opening Book Setup and Usage" section) it's enough to issue the command "books create start.pgn 60".
I downloaded the archive, unzipped start.pgn and issued the mentioned command and...nothing happened, since "books" is not a Linux command.
I tried running it from inside Crafty (eg. "crafty books create start.pgn 60"), but I failed.
Anyone with a hint, about books creation with Crafty?
Also not important, since I'm using it for analysis and I don't play openings.
I'm curious though!
TIA!
G.
I just compile the last stable Crafty version at my (Linux) system (for using it with XBoard).
Just a couple of (not significant) questions:
1) At Crafty's homepage (at "Downloads" section), states that "Crafty has a pretty complete "help" command, this gives an ASCII, postscript and troff/nroff versions of the documentation, along with a text file describing how to operate crafty...".
Ehm...I can't see any text file (except the code and makefile)!
Also, does someone figured out, how to invoke the built-in help?
Not important though, since the online version is always here: http://www.craftychess.com/documentation/craftydoc.html.
2) I downloaded book.bin (from books downloads (http://www.craftychess.com/downloads/book/) and I was trying (although its optional) to create books.bin.
As it's documentation states (http://www.craftychess.com/documentation/craftydoc.html, "Opening Book Setup and Usage" section) it's enough to issue the command "books create start.pgn 60".
I downloaded the archive, unzipped start.pgn and issued the mentioned command and...nothing happened, since "books" is not a Linux command.
I tried running it from inside Crafty (eg. "crafty books create start.pgn 60"), but I failed.
Anyone with a hint, about books creation with Crafty?
Also not important, since I'm using it for analysis and I don't play openings.
I'm curious though!
TIA!
G.