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Nik
Saturday, 09 December 2017, 05:01 PM

Virtual Archaeology !!
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Consider it therapy...

I've been trawling my drives, unpacking decade-old .zip & .rar archives, trying to untangle the 'classic' files there-in.

Some have a 'proper' Runtime, even if that must be moved up a couple of levels to where the External Library system can find it. 

Some are 'flat', with a ReadMe which explains what goes where. I copy in an 'empty' folder tree, create, then populate the Geometries' and libraries' sub-folders.

Some are rather more cryptic. I begin by firing up PhilC's wondrous PZ3editor Lite, which can also read CR2 & PP2. That usually lists the references and paths, often provides a clue to which figure.

But, some of the older files seem to be 'munged'. There's a non-ASCII character in position 8~~10 which blocks the editor loading the file. I still haven't figured out how that's done...

Plan_B is to open in Wordpad and scroll...

If I'm lucky, there's external geometry which R. Kawecki's free PropViewer 3.2 can open.  If unlucky, the external geometry has all the components in a central heap, often at different scalings...

Let's not discuss PCFs, which too-often refer to a figure version which is now unavailable...
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Ooh, both ovens just bleeped: dinner is ready !!


