Windows users, if you're trying to set an alternative airport in your FlightGear preferences.xml or system.fgfsrc, or via Goto Airport, and fgfs.exe exits with an error reading timezone file, there's a couple of workaround solutions you can use until this problem is fixed (0.7.9?).
You only need one of these: 1. Seek out a utility called d2u.exe and run it on Timezone\zone.tab (Timezone is a folder in your main FlightGear directory). This will convert zone.tab to unix format, which is what FlightGear is expecting. 2. Open zone.tab with any editor, and add a comment (anything you like) to any timezone which doesn't already have a comment. You need to precede the comment with a TAB, and make sure your editor isn't converting tabs to spaces. 3. If you have a text editor which allows you to specify Unix file format for a text file, use it to save zone.tab in Unix format. 4. If you originally decompressed the FlightGear base package with WinZip, go into WinZip and from the menu select Options, Configuration..., Miscellaneous and you should see a "TAR file smart CR/LF conversion" checkbox. UNCHECK this and re-extract the base package overwriting the previous contents. (This might be different for early WinZip versions). Mally _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users
