Re: [Bug-gnubg] Where I can find .mat file format description

[Sergey Kaluzhskiy]

Hi,

OK, we will look at GNU Backgammon source code.
Thanks for immediate response.

best regards,
Sergey

13.04.2010 12:19, Øystein Johansen пишет:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Sergey Kaluzhskiy <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     We have Russian cellphone-enabled backgammon game server
>     (jag.mobileap.ru <http://jag.mobileap.ru>) and want to implement the
>     ablility to export our match logs to .mat file for further analysis
>     in GNU backammon. I googled some time but can't find the description
>     of this format. Could you please help me and say URL where I can
>     find .mat file documentation?
>
>
> I'm afraid the format of .mat is a bit unspecified. It is a pure ASCII
> text based format that was "invented" in JellyFish. I'm really don't
> think there is a good set of parsing and writing rules for these files.
> The different backgammon software packages handles these files in their
> own way, making them very incompatible to each other, and usually have
> some bugs. Maybe you can take a look at the code in GNU Backgammon? I
> can't believe it's hard to write a .mat file generator that produces
> files that GNU Backgammon can read.
>
> -Øystein