Re: [gnugo-devel] (no subject)

[Evan Daniel]

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Roberto Sarno wrote:
| Hi,
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|      I just downloaded some versions of gnugo but I cannot open them,
I think some GZ program is required. "GZ"? what is that?
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| Thanks,
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| Roberto Sarno

I assume you are looking for a binary executable of gnugo that you can
play against on Windows; if so, you will want to follow one of the links
on the main page under the Windows section.  You will also probably want
a graphical client to play with, in order to have a graphical board and
interface (though GNU Go itself provides an ASCII mode, that is probably
not what you want).  Links to a number of such programs can be found in
the section Other Free Go Programs; I think gGo is one of the better
ones, though I don't use windows so I don't really know.

In answer to the original question, .gz is the gzip extension; it is a
compressed file format, and I think there are a number of programs for
windows that can read it.  I believe WinZip and WinRar can both read it,
but I might be mistaken.  The .gz files on the GNU Go web page contain
the GNU Go source code, not the executables.

Evan Daniel
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