RE: [Bug-gnubg] Gap in guestimated ratings?

[Ian Shaw]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joern Thyssen [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: 27 January 2003 10:04
> To: Ian Shaw
> Cc: James F. Kibler; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Bug-gnubg] Gap in guestimated ratings?
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:56:58AM -0000, Ian Shaw wrote
> > 
> [snip]
> > > Maybe someone can help re-writing this into a DOS batch file?
> > > 
> > Here is my solution. I haven't used it for a few months, 
> but it should
> > work. I'm no batch file programmer, so this may be a most inelegant
> > solution.
> > 
> > I have two batch files, Analyse.bat and AnalyseAll.bat, and 
> a command
> > file Analyse.txt.  Analyse.txt is the commands you want to run. You
> > should add the "show score" etc commands here. It is stored in
> > C:\gnubg\commands.  Analyse.bat runs Analyse.txt from the 
> command line
> > and stores the results in a file.  AnalyseAll.bat runs 
> Analyse.bat for
> > all files in the C:\gnubg\matches\raw directory and store 
> the results
> > in the C:\gnubg\matches\analysed directory. 
> > 
> > You may need to tweak the directories to suit yourself.
> 
> Looks fine :-)
> 
> A few suggested changes:
> 
> (a) add a "set priority idle" to analyse.txt, otherwise gnubg 
> will suck
>     the life out of your computer

Yeah! I usually run this sort of thing overnight.
> (b) use "C:\gnubg\gnubg-no-gui.exe< commands\analyse.txt >> 
> analyse.log"
>     to collect the results in analyse.log.
>     I assume '>>' exists on windows.
> 
> Jørn
> 
IIRC, the >> appends resluts to an existing file. Must be 10 years since I used 
it though.

I also found Windows 2000 to be quite picky about spaces near the < and >. My 
batch files worked exactly as shown, but it took a bit of fiddling.
--Ian