Author: Steven Edwards
Date: 20:33:53 09/09/03
Go up one level in this thread
On September 09, 2003 at 22:25:00, Dann Corbit wrote: >Another thing: >Text format encoding is not what should be used. All of the CDS are presented as text formats as a primary goal of the effort is to enable human readability regardless of platform. Well, as long as the ISO Latin seven bit ASCII codes were supported on the platform. (Does anyone still use EBSIDIC? Six bit CDC display code? Five bit Baudot? American Rail Road Morse?) >It should be a database using ANSI SQL. >Or (perhaps) that should be another of the PGN standard formats. It is certainly possible that a standard DB schema for PGN will be useful; it could be a good way of handling databases for the values for several of the PGN tags (e.g., site, event, and player information).
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.