60 lines
2.8 KiB
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60 lines
2.8 KiB
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.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*-
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.\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1)
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.TH SCID 1 "January 12, 2009"
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.SH NAME
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scid, pgnfix, pgnscid, sc_addmove, sc_eco, sc_epgn, sc_import, sc_remote,
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sc_spell, sc_tree, scidlet, scidpgn, scmerge, spliteco, tcscid,
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tkscid, twic2scid - chess database and utility programs
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B scid
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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This manual page documents briefly
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.B Shane's Chess Information Database.
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This manual page was originally written for the Debian GNU/Linux
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distribution because the original program does not have a manual
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page. It does have documentation in a README file, which is available
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as /usr/doc/scid-@VERSION@/README. It also has extensive HTML
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documentation, which is available at
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/usr/doc/scid-@VERSION@/help/Index.html .
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.PP
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Scid is a chess database application. With it you can browse databases
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of chess games, edit games, and search for games by various criteria.
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Scid uses its own compact and fast database format, but can convert to and
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from PGN format.
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.PP
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The command 'scid' starts the graphical user interface.
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.PP
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The spell-checking file is placed in
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/usr/share/scid/data/ratings_2008_4.ssp (in case Scid can't find it),
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while the books for scidlet is in /usr/share/scid/books/scidlet40k.sbk.
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Scid should show a photo whenever a game by a player with a photograph is
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loaded. This should happen automatically. If not, copy or link the files in
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/usr/share/scid/photos to your Scid user options directory (~/.scid)
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and run Scid. To see the photos you must load the spell-checking file.
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.SH SLACKWARE-SPECIFIC INFORMATION
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As packaged with the script from SlackBuilds.org, the directories
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/usr/share/scid/books and /usr/share/scid/bases are owned by root:games
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and with permissions of 775, which means that they are readable by anyone,
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but writable by only members of the "games" group. This makes it possible
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for members of the "games" group to add/change/delete books and bases for
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scid. However, a much better approach is something along these lines:
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mkdir -p $HOME/.scid
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cp -r /usr/share/scid/{bases,books} $HOME/.scid
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Then, in the Options menu of the scid interface, set the bases directory
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to $HOME/.scid/bases and the books directory to $HOME/.scid/books, and
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restart scid. Try with F11 to see if the book works. If not, then you may
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have to set the permissions of $HOME/.scid/bases/* and $HOME/.scid/books/*
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to 0666.
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.SH AUTHOR
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Scid was written by Shane Hudson <sgh@users.sourceforge.net>. This
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manual page was written by Peter van Rossum <petervr@debian.org>, for
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the Debian GNU/Linux system, and subsequently modified by Marco Pessotto
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<melmothx@gmail.com> and Robby Workman <rworkman@slackware.com> with
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Slackware-specific information and other minor tweaks.
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