RE: [Bug-gnubg] Request Position Database

[Øystein O Johansen]

>> > cat *.sgf > bigfile.sgf
>>
>> Well... I just did...
>> And it does work.
>>
>> I guess I have my 'Postition Database' :-)

> How about making this available from the GUI?

Sure it would be neat, but it will be a lot of work to implement. First of
all you will need a widget that can select multiple files, since gtk 1.3
doesn't support this. Then you have to reimplement cat and link it to the
main gnubg program. Probably not a problem, but not the UNIX philosophy. A
lot of coding for a feature that probably won't be much used. I rather
think it would be nicer to support shell escapes from the GUI. The user
could then do:

! cat *.sgf > bigfile.sgf

inside the "Edit -> Enter command..." window. How difficult can it be to
support shell escapes on Win32? It works in Unix environments, doesn't it?

If you want to use 'cat' yourself, put this (See attached file: cat.exe)
file in somewhere in your PATH.

Sorry if I sound a bit negative,
-Øystein





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