No worries...yes, I meant wallet empty.dat.
The 0.4.4 is working fine at the moment...I think Alenevaa helped me set that up. I don't really understand how these things work, was just trying to help the coin work better...i'll leave it to you experts...
Cheers,
Roister...
Hello Roister,
This ain't rocket science
Are you familiar with DOS before Windows? CPM before DOS? Linux/unix command lines?
It's all basically the same thing!! A CPU is given a set of instructions (usually) in its native machine language which is essentially just a series of numbers. This is called the
program, and is usually stored as a file with a file name, in a directory, on some kind of disk or USB drive. In Windows these files are called executable
programs, given the file extension '.exe'. Other OSs (operating systems) may/probably use different file extensions?
Notice that there are .exe files in the .zip collection called
yacoind.exe and
yac046.exe. Those are the daemon versions of the Yacoin
program. The
program Yacoin-qt.exe is the GUI (graphical user interface) version.
Now
programs are tailored to the particular machine, OS, etc. they are installed on, sometimes by an installation
program, an example of which is InstallShield. There are others. The latest versions of Windows (Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10) are "picky' about what 'rights' programs have depending upon where they are on your hard disk drive (what directory), and even where you can copy them to on your hard drive! If you have administrative right as the 'user' of your Windows machine, Windows is less 'picky' about what you can or cannot do! So are you an 'administrater' on your Windows machine? Are you the master of your domain? Oops that's from Seinfeld
The batch files, with the extension .bat (short for batch), are just text files that are a series of one or more commands to the OS, one per line, and each command is usually just the name of the program that should be run by the OS.
Yacoin and all the other bitcoin clones/derivatives are just variations of one incarnation (version) of bitcoin or another. They all are configurable at the moment they are launched, by giving the program an argument which is the name of a configuration file (which is just text!) when it is 'invoked' by just naming it on the 'command line'.
The batch files I provide, (again did you read the reame.txt?), 'invoke' the appropriate Yacoin
program with an appropriate configuration (text) file and tell the yacoin
program where the block chain (that is provided in the
YAcoinDataDirectory) is located. This is so that the program uses the faster leveldb block chain data as opposed to your yacoin 0.4.4 slower BerkeleyDB blockchain data.
I claim, by testing, that the statements in the readme.txt file are true, i.e.
You may copy this branch (.../test*.*) to anywhere on your system,
that you have write privileges! .../users/whatever/... would be OK
and everything would work from there too. You could even run it off
of a USB memory/drive stick!
You can copy the files to your normal locations and work from there.
These last three emails are basically all succintly stated in that readme.txt file. You should be able to run the new version or your old version easily, given this information. Just not at the same time
Has anyone else reading this tried it out? Successfully? Questions, commentz, tips
Ron