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ACBLSCORE File Format

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Jim

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Jun 1, 2012, 10:48:53 AM6/1/12
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Does anyone know if the binary file format for ACBLSCORE game files is
available anywhere? I've tried Googling with no luck.

Thanks,
Jim

David Babcock

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Jun 2, 2012, 8:03:38 AM6/2/12
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On Friday, June 1, 2012 10:48:53 AM UTC-4, Jim wrote:
> Does anyone know if the binary file format for ACBLSCORE game files is
> available anywhere? I've tried Googling with no luck.

I've looked for it myself with no luck, but you can learn a lot about the format from the Perl file bridgemats.pl that is part of Pete Matthews' distribution for printing table cards from ACBLscore movement files - it's at

http://web.mit.edu/mitdlbc/www/bridgemats/index.html

DavidB

Jim

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Jun 4, 2012, 11:19:09 AM6/4/12
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Thanks for the link, but this appears to read movement files, not game
files.

Might still be interesting, though; perhaps some of the data
structures are duplicated in the two file types.....

Grant Robinson

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Aug 1, 2012, 8:07:03 PM8/1/12
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Contact Chris Champion (CKCha...@netzero.net), who maintains the Power Ratings web site (http://www.coloradospringsbridge.com/PR_FILES/PR.HTM) and processes scads of game files every month. He helped me when I wrote an application to post tournament results. I have some Java code to read game files, and my own notes derivative of Chris' may be found at https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BzERBJ4xVoqTa1FVcTl5bGRiRlE.

pgmer6809

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Aug 2, 2012, 9:10:39 PM8/2/12
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You might also try this link:

http://www.lajollabridge.com/Software/ACBLmerge/ACBLmergeAbout.htm


the home page of ACBL merge.
It seems to produce all sorts of reports, but I am not sure if it does
so from ACBL Score files. I think it does.
The author seems to be an 'open source' kind of person so he may be
willing to share his code with you.

pgmer6809
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