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

[Dr. D. K. <dav...@on...>]

Peter Horst wrote:
> 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 cygwin, and ease the burden the OS put upon you a 
>>fair deal.
>>  
> 
> Yes, unfortunately I'm using Windows - the shell script reference was 
> just an acknowledgment that I could use Perl, or a script on my Linux 
> machine, if need be. The '4 pgn files at a time' was a reference to the 
> Windows GUI. I should have been much more specific, sorry.  Can I 
> perhaps install Scid on my Linux machine, do the work there, then copy 
> over the database?

With ChessDB, it works on both Linux and Windows, so there is no need. 
There is absolutely nothing missing in ChessDB that was in Scid. 
*Everything* is there, but you gain the extras such as this feature. 
Some of the changes are listed at:

http://chessdb.sourceforge.net/changes/