An EPD Opening Book

[PawnStormZ]

Hi Graham.
 
     Not to state the obvious, but why do you need to convert the file into PGN for use?  The ChessGUI that you are using allows you to use a "position" file as the starting point for matches; no conversions are needed.
 

[Graham Banks]

I've downloaded Norm's pgn utilities, but not sure exactly how I can activate them to edit and clean up a pgn file.
I'm not very clever at this sort of thing, so if somebody could provide simple instructions, I'd really appreciate it. I've tried without success so far.
Once I can get one of the utilities working, I'll probably be okay with the others.

Hi Graham,

The "readme" is on my page (see www below)

Here is a direct link to the readme:

http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/readme-PGN.txt

here is a short summary:

copy the program to the folder where the input file is located.
(or put the folder of all the programs on the path)

then open a command window, go to the folder where the input file is located, and execute a command, for example:

cleanup alpha.pgn

the output file(s) are new and the original input is unchanged. In this case the output files are out2.pgn and exclude2.pgn

however read the instructions for each program for using because some of them have slightly different instructions.

-Norm

Hi Norm,

I read the readme file and tried that as best I could without success. I'm obviously not that good with technical stuff like command line windows.
I'll fiddle around again today to see if I can work it out.
Thanks for answering.

Cheers,
Graham.

[Graham Banks]

Hi Graham.
 
     Not to state the obvious, but why do you need to convert the file into PGN for use?  The ChessGUI that you are using allows you to use a "position" file as the starting point for matches; no conversions are needed.
 

Yes, you're right. I've not tried that before, so thanks for reminding me.

Cheers,
Graham.