God bless you, Doug!

Doug Attig wrote to Stefan Walter:

 SW>> To be fair: It is (or would have been) not very easy to get CA in
 SW>> Germany; ChessBase had written me some letters (I'm a Fritz1-user),
 SW>> and finally I bought it. And I'm quite happy with the program
 SW>> (except it being a windows-program).
 DA> Which is precisely why I don't use it -- I really dislike Windows for
 DA> anything serious.  
So do I. CB is my only windows program. But at least it does run under WinOS2 now.
 DA> Also, CA has a much better search engine in it. 
 DA> Seems like DB's are easier to manipulate.  Also, there is no dongle
 DA> or fixed number of installs.
Do you have a description of CA format? There is one for CB (ok, it's a
hack, but better than no hack), so everyone can write utilities.

 DA> I admit I haven't messed with CB much, though, so there is probably a
 DA> lot I'm missing.  I have their demo and use that to scan CB data. 
 DA> But to seriously manipulate it, I convert it to CA.
I took a look at the CA-Demo, and it didn't look like something I could
work with. So I deleted it quickly (except for the zipfile in the filebase,
of course ;-)).


Serwas, Stefan!

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