posted 06-22- 03:03 PM               

cd:\extractor

Only that won't work, because extractor is nine letters. Change the name of the folder where extractor2 lives to, say...Builder While you're at it, change the name of the extractor2.exe file to extract.exe. Now it has the same number of letters as the builder.exe file, which will come in handy later...

Then you have to tell extractor where to find its "prey." Make yourself a "working directory." Call it opwork or something like that. Copy the .sm files you want to work on in there.

c:\builder\extract c:\opwork\p51d c:\opwork\ca15

This would tell the extract.exe program in the builder directory to break the p51d.sm file in the opwork directory into a gazillion .lod files which would have the name ca15000.lod, ca15001.lod, ca15002.lod, etc, for a mythical Aussie CA-15 aircraft, and place those .lods in the opwork directory as well.

Then you work on those .lods, or import them to another plane, or whatever. Then, when you are ready to recompile your aircraft, you type:

c:\builder\builder c:\opwork\ca15 c:\opwork\ca15.

This takes all the ca15 parts and creates a new ca15.sm file in the opwork directory.

(Tip: if you're going to be doing this repeatedly, you can use the F1 key to retype your previous line in DOS. Since builder and extract have the same number of letters, you can just type builder, and hold down the F1 key, and it will finish typing the long path to the actual airplane files.)