From: Matt Casters <matt <at> INNET <dot> BE>
Date: 11 nov 1998
Subject: Re: How do you run Shogi DB?

Hello George and GSDB Fans,

I know the solution is not perfect, but writing a wrapper would make
the applet/program platform dependend.
You need the Java Development Kit (JDK) from Sun Microsystems.
Most real operating systems like Linux, Solaris, AIX, MacOS,
provide the JDK standard in the distribution.  (Microsoft fans
can download the JDK from the web.)
Although the program is now used to create (at least) the diagrams
for the German and the Belgian shogi magasines, I'm not inclined to
put huge amounts of work into it anymore.   This is because I
have the feeling that I'm wasting too much time on it.  So far I have
received notice from maybe 5 or 6 people that they are working with
GSDB.  This being said, there is a new version in the making.  Just
don't ask me when it's going to be ready !
I have used GSDB myself to browse through the pro games from the
Shogi Nexus site, and this probably helped me a lot to get my
shogi-game to a higher level.


All the best,

Matt








George Jost wrote:
>
> Tried to run Shogi db. Confusing. Downloaded it without
> problems but I am not a Javascript wiz. Are there no simple hooks
> to a WWW page or executable included? I expected a sort of wrapper
> of some sort so that I just have to click on something and it would
> work.
>
> Sorry for the stupidity and laziness ...