Re: [Bug-gnubg] questions/ suggestions

[Jim Segrave]

On Thu 13 Nov 2003 (13:48 +0000), Joern Thyssen wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 02:34:53PM +0100, Mueller, Achim wrote
> > 
> > >> I recently downloaded build 08/11 (the old version) because
> > >> I heard that this should have an option to save rollout trials
> > >> to an SGF file which can be analyzed afterwards. But I can't
> > >> find this option, can anyone help me out?
> > 
> > > I'm not sure what you mean. Can someone else answer this, someone who
> > > understands the question.
> > 
> > If you want to save rollouts from a position, you first have to open a new
> > game, match or session.
> > Then you edit the position, do the rollout and save the file. For now this
> > is the only way to store rollout results in a *.sgf file.
> 
> I guess both ?ystein and Achim are unware of the commands:
> 
> set rollout log yes
> set rollout logfile blah.sgf
> 
> They have to be entered using Edit->Enter Command, as there are no GUI
> equivalents.

But don't add the .sgf to the logfile name, it will be added automatcially.

Yep - it was done for Michel Depreli who wanted to be able to
investigate how gnubg actually played the rollouts. I didn't think
many people would want to do this, so I didn't think it belonged in
the GUI, particularly as it has the potential to build a massive
directory of files in a very short time. Many systems don't behave
well with big directories (the voice of someone who has dealt with
Usenet servers and who still deals with large scale mail servers - you
don't want to have directories with thousands of files in them, you
can bring a Solaris system to its knees that way).

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Jim Segrave           address@hidden