Re: [Chessdb-users] [Scid-users] question about importing pgn files
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From: Dr. D. K. <dav...@on...> - 2007-03-08 12:09:04
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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/ |