Not Dene, but... On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 22:35 +0000, Peter Weaver wrote: > Hi Dene, > Thanks for your reply below - which helped a little. 'fraid you're > going to have to really spell it out in words of one syllable though. > > I've downloaded the archive file onto a memory stick at the moment > whereas, Flightgear is fully installed on my pc. When I try and open > the archive file, I get the window asking what I'd like to open it > with - that's the first problem.
Check out Total-Commander ( http://www.ghisler.com ) its a file manager with built-in support for opening tar.gz files. I prefer it to the standard windows explorer or Winzip. It replaces both, and runs under Wine on Linux as well. > The second problem is that I don't know how to extract or what you > mean by extract. Is this what I would call unzipping using something > like Winzip? That's it. Winzip even handles these files, I think. > Regards > > Peter > > Hi Peter, > >Once you've downloaded the scenery file; > >- Create a directory in the FG \data directory > >- Open the archive (*.gz file) > >- Extract to the \Data\Scenery make sure you use the embedded folder > >structure or you'll end up with everything in the \Data\Scenery > directory > > > >and finally the most important step!! > >Load up FG and enjoy > > > > > >Regards > >=Dene > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
